Photo: Bill Branson

• Remembering Philip Seymour Hoffman.
• Who are Joyce’s modern heirs? Rivka Galchen and Pankaj Mishra discuss.
• No longer shall they toil in obscurity: Lemony Snicket has launched the Prize for Noble Librarians Faced with Adversity.
• The Hardy Boys face what are undeniably their strangest mysteries yet.
• Is Eurostile Bold Extended the most popular typeface in science fiction? A look at the typography in 2001: A Space Odyssey.