• John Updike died Tuesday of cancer at the age of seventy-six. He was, according to Philip Roth, our time’s greatest man of letters. (The New York Times) (The Los Angeles Times) (The Boston Globe)
• Canadian police have formed a new anti-art fraud unit. (CBC News)
• The Strangest Man: The Hidden life of Paul Dirac by Grahan Farmelo is reviewed in The Telegraph.