- How can one love a book? Natalie Zutter counts the ways. (Reactor)
- Rae Giana Rashad reads Beloved to her daughters and reflects on the book’s value for Black families. (LitHub)
- Zoe Guy reports the latest news about the Hugo awards clusterfuck. (Vulture)
- Nora Hickey takes a tour of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at Ohio State University. (Hypoallergic)
- Matthew Allen looks at the controversy around Molly, a memoir written by Blake Butler after his wife’s suicide. (Vanity Fair)
- Maris Kreizman would like audiobook narrators to calm down. (LitHub)
- Andrew Albanese brings us the latest on a lawsuit by multiple authors against OpenAI. (Publishers Weekly)
- Olivia Allen explores Gen Z’s rediscovery and reimagining of book clubs. (Dazed)
- Kurt Kleiner reviews the long history and current arguments about the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European. (Ars Technica)
- Paige Oamek reveals how Ron DeSantis’s book-banner-friendly laws and policies have come back to bite him in the ass. (The New Republic)
- …and your weekly serving of censorship news, courtesy of Book Riot)
