- Lesia Dubenko reports on how Ukrainian librarians are sending books to libraries across Europe for children and teens who fled the Russian invasion. (Kyiv Post)
- Lincoln Michel takes a look at speculative fiction, and how reality seems to be racing the genre towards possible futures. (Esquire)
- Julia Rittenberg tackles the perennial question: just how many words did Shakespeare invent? (Book Riot)
- Meanwhile, Ryan van Loan argues that science fiction and fantasy aren’t just great escapes, they’re also useful tools for exploring power. (Gizmodo)
- Ty Rushing explains how growing anti-LGBTQ+ hate have led to the closure of the Vinton Public Library in Iowa. (Iowa Starting Line)
- Sabina Graves asked the captioners how they chose just the right words for the Stranger Things subtitles. (Gizmodo)
- Ruth Maclean recounts the efforts of Malian librarians and others to digitize rare manuscripts from Timbuktu and other desert libraries. (New York Times)
- Jessica Winter explores the roles of queer children’s literature in the middle of a culture war. (New Yorker)
- Alexandra Alter and Elizabeth A. Harris share the delightful news that more—and more diverse—bookstores are popping up around the United States. (New York Times
- This week’s installment of censorship news, courtesy of Book Riot.
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The article about the Iowa library closing should make me feel angry, but right now it just makes me feel very sad. I really like that New Yorker article on queer children’s books. Very good.