Book News: Roger Ebert's Fiction, Plath's Bedtime Tales: The New Yorker The author and film critic Roger Ebert has died. Read Richard Brody's remembrance and an original science-fiction story by Ebert. In response to Iain Banks being diagnosed with gall bladder cancer, Roger Tagholm examines the ways in which bad news affects the publishing industry. It would be pretty to think, as so much poetry does, that the world is a place of revelation and light, if only poets show us the way to it. The best poets, however, never forget that the path to light often leads though the dark. David Yezzi urges contemporary poets to embrace satire. Mark Twain's advice to little girls. If nothing else, one ought to know how to treat a comma. An impassioned guide to comma-usage. Sylvia Plath's bedtime stories.