A string of recent articles displays a bit of shape-shifting in the literary world. Author Tom Wolfe has swapped publishers, leaving Farrar, Straus & Giroux — his home for 42 years — to set up shop at Little, Brown & Co. The Guardian writes about a “tug-of-love” over the legacy of Simone De Beauvoir, “the mother of modern feminism and a champion of sexual freedom.” As France begins “a glittering celebration” of the centenary of her birth next week, “some academics have warned against the rush of debate and publications descending into prudish attacks on her deliberately outrageous sex life,” as opposed to her life in letters. The question remains: Which way will she go? Also in the Guardian, columnist John Freeman comments on the “surreal experience” novelists undergo while watching their work be adapted for Hollywood (and charts a few bizarre author cameos — none very Hitchcockian). And the New York Times ponders how Jorge Luis Borges, who “set his stories in a pretechnological past and was easily enthralled by the authority of ancient texts” might just be the “Man Who Discovered the Internet.”