- Olivia Sung reflects on her love of libraries and literature in the wake of a fire caused by a far-right riot that damaged a Liverpool library. (The Guardian)
- Connie Pan explains immersion reading. (Book Riot)
- James Folta has a flowchart for helping us navigate the awkwardness of those moments when we don’t like a book recommended to us by someone we know. (LitHub)
- Joshua Chaplinsky likes an epistolary crime novel. So do I! (CrimeReads)
- Brianna Sharpe talks to experts about indigenous language revitalization programs in Canada and what these languages can teach us about our environment. (The Walrus)
- Tony Eprile taught creative writing at a maximum security prison in Rhode Island. (The American Scholar)
- Ed Simon muses on what we can learn from The Decameron about living in very uncertain, very worrying times. (LitHub)
- Casey McQuiston declares that romance fiction is literature. It is! (TIME)
- Michèle Roberts writes in praise of Colette. (OUPBlog)
- …and a serving of censorship news, courtesy of Book Riot.
