• It’s not just the NSA. The FBI and Department of Defense could be spying on you, too.

• Publishers claim fact-checking non-fiction would be prohibitively expensive.

• Forty years after that last celebratory brandy finished him off, Julian Maclaren-Ross will get a headstone

• Novelist/comedian A.L. Kennedy: “If I’m doing political jokes I tend to be more obscene, just to keep everyone happy.”

• Writer Katharine Weber: “Acknowledgement pages offer readers exactly the sort of map I never want to provide.”

• Sarah Waters contemplates the Blitz.