Literary World Rocked by New Verse Translation

of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

"My conjecture is, Dr. Watson, that my genius for

disguise may have finally gotten the better of me."

Rip Van Winkle awakened after a 4,000-year nap only to

discover people in the Middle East were still killing each other.

He is now trying to go back to sleep, so far unsuccessfully.

Marisa Miller and Heidi Klum, the Boobsey Twins

Mr. Hyde Is Dead at 83; Dr. Jekyll Says, "Free at Last!"

Polymorphous perversity has finally killed Norman Mailer.

But good godamighty, at least it took 84 years to do it.

Asia Waiting for the Mighty U. S. to Come to Bat

"I just got a call from Ayn Rand on my cell phone. She says

Hell's a real hoot, but that Satan thinks Atlas Shrugged

is the worst novel ever written."

Huckleberry Finn

Huckleberry Thien

Le Petit Prince

Hannibal Lecter Takes a Wife

Observers say Senator Lieberman's wounds from the

arrows of outrageous fortune are self-inflicted.

Lilliputian Weary of Teardrops Falling on Her Head

"I am indeed a cat, and this is indeed a hat."

Congress Trying to Subpoena Karl Rove

The Fall of the House of Usher, Part 1:

Pamela Anderson Shakes the Foundation

A Marine equipped with the new Inferno Positioning System

says the Ninth Circle of Hell is centered in the White House,

most likely in the Oval Office.

Pakistani Literary Critic Taking It to the Streets

Children of the Corn VIII: Ethanol the Avenger

Last Stop in Gulliver's Travels