- Not a post or article but I wanted to share a bookish resource I found last week: BookTriggerWarnings.com. It’s a crowd-sourced project to point out potential triggers in a growing list of titles.
- Ruby Mellen and Marco Longari present the danger of desertification and climate change to Mauritania’s legendary libraries. (Washington Post)
- Sarah Shaffi explores the flourishing of feminist retellings of myths. (The Guardian)
- Kali Wallace would like more space horror, please and thank you. (Tor)
- Katherine March points out the problems with how American schools teach reading and how it takes the fun out of the whole thing. (The Atlantic)
- Rob Bricken rounds up early examples of science fiction. (Gizmodo)
- Maasaki Morioka looks at the delightful innovation of shared bookstores. (NikkeiAsia)
- John Hawks takes a look at the ongoing controversy with Castleton University’s plan to go entirely digital. The latest move is awesome: students are checking out stacks of books in protest. (NBC)
- Tovia Smith reveals how book activists are resisting book bans/challenges. (NPR)
- Also, a Utah parent is trying to get the Bible banned to highlight the hypocrisy of book bans. (VICE)
- Janet Manley shares censorship news, including a report from the American Library Association announcing a record number of book bans/challenges. (LitHub)
- Kacen Bayless and Sarah Ritter report on the escalating fight between legislators and librarians in Missouri. The latest move is a proposed cut to library funding in response to a lawsuit from a library and the American Civil Liberties Union. (Kansas City Star)
- …and your weekly censorship news, courtesy of Book Riot.
