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The re-issued canon of "Routledge Classics" reveals a modern movement in which "none of the English books in the collection is equal in stature to its Continental rivals", or so says Edward Skidelsky.

Stop the insanity! says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle ending his tenure reporting from Washington. In always-on America "24/7 is a shorthand way of describing a living hell" Clearly, he's never craved Starbucks at 3am.

One critic''s retort to BJ Myers' essay "A Reader's Manifesto" pegs his complaint on the author's "grousing about the worthless dilettantes passing themselves off as writers these days." Ahem.

Fresh on the heels of digittante's own encounter with Nigerian 419 email fraud, Salon offers up a critical analysis of their literary merit, "which lends credence to my humble belief" you'll enjoy it.