In the News: Oates Honored, Obama in Kickassistan

Joyce Carol Oates has received the National Arts Club’s Gold Medal of Honor.

Kofi Annan’s memoir, billed as a “personal biography of global statecraft,” will be published by Penguin Press.

“A Farewell to Arms and Legs” and “The Corpse of Monte Cristo” are among the literary mashups hoping to mimic the success of “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.”

A new Obama-inspired comic-book series features characters such as “Barack the Barbarian,” “Sorceress Hillaria,” and “her demi-god trickster husband Bill,” all of whom dwell in the country of “Kickassistan.”

Dictionary definitions of marriage are evolving.

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