- Elizabeth Kim reports that the New York Public Library has had its funding restored! The protests (and memes) against at $58 million cut worked! (Gothamist)
- Elif Shafak reflects on 1984, seventy-five years after its first publication. (LitHub)
- Amanda Becker interviews Emily Drabinski, last year’s president of the American Library Association, about her recent library road trip. (19th News)
- Molly Templeton looks at reading books she doesn’t understand as opportunities to learn. (Reactor)
- A study published in a recent issue of Scientific Reports argues that Egyptian scribes had possibly the worst working posture I’ve ever seen. Isaac Schultz shares the findings and an illustration of the scribes’ crouch. I have sympathy pains just looking at it. (Gizmodo)
- Alana Saab explains how she wrote her way through a mental health crisis. (LitHub)
- Patricia T. O’Conner and Stewart Kellerman reveal that English speakers have been “playing the _____ card” for a surprisingly long time. (Grammarphobia)
- Olivia Rutigliano reflects on well-educated detectives in fiction. (CrimeReads)
- …and Book Riot‘s latest dispatch of censorship news.
