- Bess Levin reports on the wave of proposed legislation that would send librarians to jail for offering “obscene” materials on library shelves. (Vanity Fair)
- James Folta presents a Choose Your Own Adventure about attempting to read at the beach. (LitHub)
- Brad Phillips may have a problem with how much Scrabble he plays. (The Paris Review)
- Jenny Hamilton shares her thoughts on one of my favorite genres: fairy-tale retellings. (Reactor)
- John Milton has surprisingly readable handwriting. Jennifer Ouellette recounts how scholars identified the hand that annotated this copy of Holinshed’s Chronicles. (Arts Technica)
- Tom Wilhelmus takes a look at recent COVID-inspired fiction. (The Hudson Review)
- Parents! The good folks at Medievalists.net have some resources for teaching your children the ABCs from fifteenth- and sixteenth-century poems.
- Charlie Jane Anders reveals that eighteenth-century dramatists used to give Shakespeare’s King Lear a happy ending. (Happy Dancing)
- …and some censorship news, from the folks at Book Riot.
