Some things that caught our attention this week.

• Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on the political poetry of Muhammad Ali.

• Lisa McInerney has won the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. Her novel, The Glorious Heresies, earned her £30,000 and “Bessie,” a limited edition bronze figurine, but no actual Baileys. The Chair of Judges, Margaret Mountford, called the book, “a superbly original, compassionate novel that delivers insights into the very darkest of lives through humor and skillful storytelling.”

• LitHub has started a “Rotten Tomatoes for Books” called Book Marks. The site assigns letter grades to books based on published reviews “from established national broadsheets to regional weeklies and alternative litblogs” (a book must have at least three to be listed). Just launched this week, the site has several hundred graded books listed, but it also has received some early criticism, including this from Alex Shepard at the New Republic.