* AskMetaFilter: What are the all-time best science fiction novels which depict Artificial Intelligence?

* Richard Pells argues in the Chronicle that historians should pay more attention to culture, literature, and film. This is a great idea if someone gives me a job in a history department, and a terrible idea if some historian takes my literature job.

* Also via A&L Daily, the untold story of Virginia Woolf and her female servants.

Upon reaching adulthood, she would never live without some form of domestic "help", and battling the "timid spiteful servant mind" throughout her life both enraged her and sustained her. It was easier for her to regard her servants as not quite real than to accept the fact of her dependence on others.

* And in philatelist news, the new Marvel superhero stamps came out last week.