I'm sure I've read a version of this somewhere, where the surface layers of a much larger planet were blasted away by an alien super weapon, leaving only the heavier elements of the core. I doubt that meets your definition of plausible though, somehow.

It's only a matter of time, we already know he's a homophone.

Don't be ridiculous, he'll have to settle for the Booker.

So have they actually set out which fields are eligible for this thing? Are speechwriters, screenwriters, newspaper journalists, Disqus commenters e.t.c writing literature? They seem to be saying lyric writing is a form of poetry, which … sure, why not?

A.V. club writers really hate table-setting. Do you all have PTSD from finishing school or something?

The time travel is completely irrelevant to the ethics of this.

Right at the start of Slaughterhouse 5.

It's worth it as a precursor to Witches Abroad and Lords and Ladies, which are much better.

Do you also say 'time is a flat circle' a lot?

Ah just pedantry. I may be wrong, but I think that's the U.K. viewing figures as a percentage of the population of England alone.

I assume his dwarvish blood gives him an advantage in the mines. Also, I like how Marah manages to keep the U.K./England distinction straight for the interview, then reverts to 'fuck it, they're the same thing' for the synopsis.

Fine, I'll read some Marilynne Robinson.
My own reading included:
Mansfield Park by Jane Austin.
I can see why this is probably her most disliked novel: The length, the slow pacing, the decidedly bitter moralizing, Fanny's judgmental misery, Edmund's general nothingness, the bizarre anti-theatre tirade, the extended…

The inability of the Vox writer to understand what words like 'ironically' and 'allegory' mean makes me rather unwilling to treat them as an authority on subtext of any kind.
I mean:
In the books, Rowling used Lupin’s werewolf condition as a very deliberate metaphor for the HIV virus and the pervasive social stigma…

As 30 Seconds To Mars frontman? Yes.

That horse definitely needs to write a twitter poem about this.

It would seem a weird oversight if not. You can't tell me Harry Potter doesn't get clicks.

To be fair, they are meant to be 'specifically Indian' rather than 'vaguely Indian'. The short story thing linked to in the article involves meeting creatures from Native American mythology such as the Pukwudgie and Horned serpent and naming the houses after them. The Cherokee and Wampanoag are name-checked.

Yeah, the school is founded by an Irish orphan and the first teachers other than her were Native Americans. The houses are named after magical creatures from various Native American folklores that exist and inhabit North America in-universe. I guess you could argue that there's a bit of cultural imperialism going on,…

I suspect that very few of these Googlers actually voted though. I personally voted to remain, but I was not confident in doing so and I find it a bit strange that so many seem to consider racism the only possible motivation for wanting to leave an institution as obviously flawed as the EU.
There has been a lot of…

You are aware that all of the countries in the EU are predominantly white, right?