- Stephen Simpson explains how a public library in Smithville, Texas, started to offer tele-mental health services along with books and internet access. (Texas Tribune)
- Maniza Naqvi helps restore Pioneer Book House, Karachi’s oldest bookshop. (LitHub)
- Ellen Rolfes and Samantha Fields run the numbers on the economic costs of banning books. (Marketplace)
- Lisa Ko likens her writing process to a flea market. (LitHub)
- Lyndsie Manusos takes a look at the genre of fabulism. (Book Riot)
- Anthony Aycock writes in praise of Ambrose Bierce. (Reactor)
- Amanda Lehr retells masterpieces of Irish literature in limericks. (McSweeney’s)
- Anna Aslanyan investigates how AI is affecting translators and translation. (The Guardian)
- Speaking of translation, Franziska Naether discusses the Rosetta Stone. (Open Culture)
- Katherine Hobbs profiles sensationalist author Wilkie Collins, who seems to be having a moment with academia right now. (Smithsonian)
- …and your weekly dispatch of censorship news, courtesy of the folks at Book Riot.
