- Larissa Irankunda turns a critical eye on “race-fishing” on book covers. (The Mary Sue)
- Walker Caplan reports that, even though he might have been a literary genius, Honoré de Balzac was a moron when it came to marketing. (LitHub)
- Grant Snider presents a rogue’s gallery of readers with bad habits—although there are some I would quibble with. (New York Times)
- Samantha Leach profiles a bevy of Instagram poets. (Bustle)
- Alison Flood reveals that Margaret Atwood is heading up a modern-day Decameron with some of the leading lights of contemporary literature. (The Guardian)
- Noor Qasim takes a look back at 125 years of book reviewing. (New York Times)
- Janet Hendrickson took a unique and beautiful approach to translating a four-hundred-year-old dictionary. (Words Without Borders)
- Nick Cornwell writes about his parents’ partnership, which produced the John le Carré books. (The Guardian)
