'In their needling, selfish, dry-as-dust way, these three books are works of cumulative power and never less than consistent interest.'

@lieutenantkije weighs up the final novel in J M Coetzee's Jesus trilogy.

http://ow.ly/TuWo50xqrL0

'It remains a poem comprised of clay fragments, short and long, and though the desert delivers up occasional additional text, we are a long way from a whole poem.'

Michael Schmidt on the oldest surviving poem in the world.

http://ow.ly/7OLF50xqr91

'Apparently if you’re a teenager and you send a declaration of love to someone heart emoji, heart emoji, heart emoji and they come back smiley face, that’s the worst.'

Thomas Blaikie tries to get his head round the language of the internet.

http://ow.ly/TU6d50xroRc