“A creator always has to be with what’s revolutionary,” says Syrian poet and Goethe prize winner Adonis, “but he should never be like the revolutionaries. He can’t speak the same language or work in the same political environment.”

The surrealist painter and poet Dorothea Tanning died Tuesday at age 101. In addition to paintings that earned her comparisons to Magritte, she wrote poetry, including two books published by Minnesota’s Graywolf Press.

Appropriation, misremembered influences, outright theft: Leading thinkers on intellectual property and copyright offer their nuanced takes on where fair use ends and plagiarism begins.

Aiming to write “with such force and completeness that no other critic will be able to say a word about it,” Stanley Fish says a “desire for pre-eminence, authority and disciplinary power” is “what blogs and the digital humanities stand against.”

John Brockman characterizes Edge.org, the online forum he created with the late performance artist James Lee Byars, as a way for readers to “look over the shoulders of some extraordinarily gifted individuals as they go back and forth in the battle of ideas.”

On the coffee table book, The Collected Jokes of Slavoj Zizek, created by Auden Mortensen and published in a limited edition of one.

In an age of 140-character tweets and infographics, longform or narrative journalism is alive and well, GOOD reports, linking up sites that specialize in meaty, in-depth writing.

Oscar Wilde’s tombstone is getting a cleaning and, to the dismay of some, a barrier to bar the kind of rampant grave-smooching that’s been going on since the poet died in 1900. “We’re not saying, ‘Go away,’ but rather, ‘Try to behave sensibly,’” says Wilde’s grandson.

Dissident playwright, Velvet Revolution figurehead, and former Czech Republic president Vaclav Havel has died at age 75. A writer who decried the “political apartheid” under Communist rule, he was Czechoslovakia’s first democratically elected president.