Book News: Sad Young Literary Men, Joycean Art Works: The New Yorker Reza Aslan's "Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth" has risen to the top of Amazon's best-sellers list following the author's heated interview with Fox News correspondent Lauren Green. "The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P." author Adelle Waldman talks to Flavorwire about her favorite "sad young literary men" in fiction. Read Sasha Weiss's review. Every time we read a good novel, we are essentially befriending a new incorrigible person - which makes sense, really, because most of us love incorrigible people all throughout our lives. At The Paris Review, Katherine Hill on which literary characters would make the best friends. Contemporary art works inspired by James Joyce from an exhibition at the Francis Kyle Gallery, in London. In the Los Angeles Review of Books, Katie Ryder considers Renata Adler's "Speedboat" as an answer to Virginia Woolf's call, in 1919, for a new type of novel that captures the "semi-transparent envelope" of modern experience. Four designers of recent book covers compare their original concepts with the published versions. Tim Kreider on designing the cover for his own book.