It really is true that all our favorites are problematic. This time, word is getting out from black literary scholars that Walt Whitman held racist ideas. (The Daily JSTOR)
Alison Flood reports on the removal from Barcelona schools of books deemed to be sexist. (The Guardian)
Allison M. Charette shares her experience traveling to Madagascar to meet the author she was in the process of translating and learn more about the world of Malagasy letters. (LitHub)
Saw Nang and Mike Ives discuss efforts by the Myanmarese government to crack down on thangyat, a traditional annual performance of satirical poetry. (The New York Times)
Emily Dickinson is really hard to translate. (The Paris Review)
B.D. McClay writes in praise of the thesaurus. (The Outline)
