November 29, 2006 Gore Vidal heralds the demise of hands-on editors, blaming them for the reign of “near- illiterates, like F. Scott Fitzgerald.” (Vidal has hated on Fitzgerald for years.) Read more
November 29, 2006 “Kingsley and Martin Amis once had a good row about the word ‘dilapidated.’” Read more
November 29, 2006 The Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics has named JM Coetzee its first Honorary Fellow. Read more
November 29, 2006 Venezuela’s new electronic voting system involves paper receipts. Officials will count them and compare the totals against electronic results. Read more
