- Ben Okri discusses the importance of writers from formerly colonized nations reclaiming their collective stories. (The Guardian)
- Huda Hassan reports on Grandparents for Truth, an organization pushing back against efforts to ban and censor books in the United States. (The Cut)
- Molly Templeton requests more genre mashups. I heartily agree! (Reactor)
- Chase DiFeliciantonio has more information on the Internet Archive hack. (San Francisco Chronicle)
- Drew Broussard brings us up to date on the problem of low-quality print-on-demand books. (LitHub)
- Stephen Akey shares stories and lessons from his time working at the Brooklyn Public Library’s telephone reference service in the 1980s, when the library was Google. (The Hedgehog Review)
- Richard Luscombe investigates a new move by book banners: reclassifying nonfiction as fiction to hide books from readers. (The Guardian)
- Patricia T. O’Conner and Stewart Kellerman explain why we spell write (and other words) with a w even though we don’t say a w sound. (Grammarphobia)
- Dr. Sayantani DasGupta argues that book bans are bad for children’s health. (TIME)
- …and a frightful Halloween season roundup of censorship news from the spooky folks at Book Riot.
