• Author Tony Hillerman, creator of Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police, died Sunday in Phoenix at the age of 83. (The Globe and Mail) (The Los Angeles Times)
• Critic, translator, essayist, and author, Alberto Manguel, muses on Borges in a review of William Goldbloom Bloch's The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel in The New York Sun.
• Fabergé's Eggs by Toby Faber is reviewed in The Wall Street Journal.