A few things that caught our attention this week:

• PEN announced the finalists for its literary awards. The winners will be announced on March 1.

• LitHub provided a great list of 25 African novels to be published in the first half of 2016 in the US.

• In the New Yorker, we learn of TS Eliot’s rules for good detective fiction, thanks to Paul Grimstad.

• Harper’s has fired its editor, Christopher Cox, after a three-month tenure.