I’m back from vacation, lovely bookish folks!
- Matthew Holding Eagle III reports on the new Little Free Library’s Indigenous program. (MPR News)
- Al Jazeera posts an amazing photo essay documenting efforts at the Hamere Berhan Institute in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to recreate sacred texts from the parchment to the bamboo-penned lines.
- Kelly Jensen explains Texas House Bill 900, another terrible, poorly thought out, and completely unnecessary book censorship bill. (Book Riot)
- Alaya Dawn Johnson discusses finding healing in fantasy and science fiction. (LitHub)
- Heidi McDonald looks at librarian efforts to keep comics on the shelves in spite of book challenges and bans. (Publishers Weekly)
- Sayantani DasGupta looks at the recent trend of Jane Austen and Regency romances retellings set in contemporary Asian settings. (LitHub)
- The Southern Poverty Law Center labels Moms for Liberty an “anti-government extremist” group. Jason Wilson reports. (The Guardian)
- I’m really tickled by this article by Marianna Stell about medieval rules for lending out books because some of them sound a lot like the reasons I’ve seen folks give nowadays about why they don’t like to loan their books out. (Library of Congress)
- Danika Ellis updates us on librarian efforts to combat “Hide the Pride” activities in their libraries. (Book Riot)
- Michele Kirichanskaya has ideas about the monster husband of Beauty and the Beast and other fairy tales. (Tor)
- Timur Khan explores the Baburnama, a centuries-old chronicle of Zahiruddin Muhammad, the founder of the Mughal Dynasty, and what it reveals about sixteenth-century life in what is now Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India. (Medievalists.Net)
- Kate Griffen wonders why The Turn of the Screw still creeps us out. (LitHub)
- …and I haven’t forgotten to pass on censorship news, courtesy of the wonderful folks at Book Riot: June 9 and June 16
