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Rameses (Joel Edgerton) and his wife Nefertari (Golshifteh Farahani) try to save their stricken child, a victim of one of the plagues, in Exodus: Gods And Kings. Kerry Brown/Twentieth Century Fox hide caption

Laurels: perfect for the poet laureate on your holiday list. Grafissimo/iStockphoto hide caption

It's clear from this child's reckless nighttime e-reading that someone has not kept up with their subscription to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Mari/iStock hide caption

Games of Thrones' author George R.R. Martin Kevin Winter/Getty Images hide caption

People wait in line at Macmillan Publishers to have books autographed by their authors at last year's Book Expo America in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) Mark Lennihan/AP hide caption

Get your sci-fi with a side of cappuccino. e_rasmus/iStockphoto hide caption

James Patterson, together with a cadre of co-writers, consistently produces more than 10 books a year. Forbes estimates that Patterson made $90 million this year alone. Janette Pellegrini/Getty Images for Disney Publishing hide caption

In its attempt to obtain a foothold in a market long dominated by Amazon, Apple ran afoul of antitrust law. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption

The second in the series, The Silkworm will soon spin its thread in pixels on TV. Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

Prime Minister Tony Abbott rankled the judges of the Prime Minister's Literary Award with a last-minute announcement. Judge Les Murray later called Abbott's pick a "stupid and pretentious book." Stefan Postles/Getty Images hide caption

When it comes to picturing Elena Ferrante, readers have even less material than they do on Thomas Pynchon. They'll have to continue to settle for stock photography such as this, a shot of her native Naples, Italy. Angelafoto/iStockphoto hide caption

Lena Dunham's collection of personal essays, Not That Kind of Girl, is her first book. Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images hide caption

Sitting on the steps outside her London home, Doris Lessing learns from reporters that she won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. Shaun Curry/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

The metaphoric shadow of Microsoft passes, less hopeful than when it came. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption

Nigerian poet and novelist Ben Okri won the Booker Prize for his 1991 novel The Famished Road. It remains to be seen whether that prize and this new one will share the same shelf at home. Prakash Singh/AFP/Getty Images hide caption