- Andrew Hui shares Montaigne’s commonsense and insightful advice on building one’s own library. (LitHub)
- Simon Pearce shares some delightful letters to Santa from nineteenth-century kiddos. (Fishwrap)
- Electric Literature would like our votes to choose the best book cover of the year.
- Oxford University Press has declared “brain rot” as the word of the year. Harry Taylor reports. (The Guardian)
- Angela Baggetta only re-read books in 2024. (LitHub)
- Anatoly Liberman reveals a surprising number of possible origins of a beloved British swearword. (OUP Blog)
- Phil Christman makes the case for teaching and studying literature and language. (Plough)
- Jen Benka addresses the recent University of Pittsburgh study about AI-generated poetry and reader preferences. (LitHub)
- Molly Templeton says that, “It’s a really good time to get loud about the books you love!” (Reactor)
- …and censorship news from the good folk of Book Riot.
