- Emily Temple and the crew at LitHub created a list of their top 75 book covers of 2018.
- Pair with Sarahmay Wilkinson’s essay about designing a cover for a debut novelist. (LitHub)
- The BookMark gang present the best hatchet jobs of 2018.
- Olivia Rutigliano shares the literary history of the female detective, which goes back a lot further than we realized. (Lapham’s Quarterly)
- Tayari Jones asked readers for their earliest reading memory. (Book Riot)
- I don’t know if this is genius or terrifying: a Furby reprogrammed to recite Borges. Of course, two things can be true. (Boing Boing)
- Sometimes bibliophiles don’t want you to buy them books. (Book Riot)
- Pair with this lift of 10 books to give your enemies. (LitReactor)
- Chi Luu writes in praise of Jane Austen’s linguistic subversions. (Daily JSTOR)
- Bartholomew Bennett rounded up some of the best booksellers in fiction. (The Guardian)
- Would you like to hear Robert Browning’s voice? (YouTube)
