Marah Gubar explains how it’s not enough to read diverse books and empathize. Books like The Hate U Give should also be a call to action. (Public Books)
Rachel Dunphy writes in praise of Mrs. Bennett. (LitHub)
If you can’t get enough of Jane Austen, Rebecca Hussey would like to recommend a few of her contemporaries. (Book Riot)
Robert Fernandez writes a scathing response to a Philadelphia man who objected to LGBTQ-friendly policies at the Philadelphia Free Library. (Intellectual Freedom Blog)
Jamie Canaves and Gail Carriger have thoughts about the importance of noms de plume and “reader betrayal.” (Book Riot; Janice Hardy’s Fiction University)
When Tsarist Russia banned books written in Lithuanian in Latin letters, the knygnešiai started smuggling books into the country by the thousands. (Atlas Obscura)
