- Dalya Alberge brings us up to speed on what’s going on with George Orwell’s archives. (The Guardian)
- Brittany Allen has just made my travel bucket list even bigger by listing bookstore/bars across the United States. (LitHub)
- Speaking of travel bucket lists, the Lit Hub team has created an epic American literary road trip for us.
- Livia Gershon dips into the scholarly literature to figure out why governesses keep popping up in classic British literature. (Daily JSTOR)
- Tajja Isen argues that book cover design in big publishing has a racism problem. (The Walrus)
- Relatedly, Philip Nel wonders if Harold, of Harold and the Purple Crayon, was meant to be a Black child. (The Conversation)
- Julian Roberts-Grmela explores how California legislators and educators are approaching a huge literacy problem among K12 students. (Los Angeles Times)
- Steven Walker covers the latest blow in Florida conservative’s war on wokeness: the gutting of the New College’s Gender and Diversity Center’s library, disguised as “routine weeding.” (Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
- Meanwhile, Professor Paul Collins of Austen Peay State University in Tennessee created the Unbannable Library installation in response to efforts to ban books. Angele Latham reports. (The Tennessean)
- Agustina Iñiguez highlights some really cool children’s libraries around the world. (ArchDaily)
- Susanna Ashton uncovers the real-life inspiration for Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. (LitHub)
- …and a dispatch of censorship news from the lovely people of Book Riot.
