- Bahira Amin tours the oldest bookstores in Cairo. (Middle East Eye)
- John Koenig talks about his quest to find words for all our strange, obscure emotions. (LitHub)
- Pair with: A recent roundup of rare English words from Merriam-Webster.
- Cody Caetano has thoughts about Indigenous literature and “trauma porn.” (The Walrus)
- Alyssa Shotwell shares some of the best tweets written to remind the New York Times that Mary Shelley invented science fiction. (The Mary Sue)
- Joan Acocella offers a fast history of the deciphering of the Rosetta Stone, in this review of an upcoming book that I very much want to read. (The New Yorker)
- Andrew Murphy explains how publishers helped make Shakespeare ubiquitous in the bookish world. (The Independent)
- Carina Pereira sometimes changes her mind about the books she reads after reading reviews. (Book Riot)
- Donald Cohen and Allen Mikaelia reveal what happens when local governments privatize their public libraries and serve up a good reminder that public libraries are a public good. (LitHub)
- Andrew Solomon responds to being censored in China and ending up on Krause’s list. (New York Times)
