- Emily Temple assembles the ultimate books of 2024 list for us. (LitHub)
- The results for this year’s Bulwer-Lytton Contest are out! (The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest)
- Kevin Young writes in praise of Nikki Giovanni. (The New Yorker)
- Cynthia Ozick counts the many ways letters play a role in history and literature. (Harper’s)
- Speaking of letters, Moudhy Al-Rashid finds deeply human emotions in surviving correspondence from ancient Mesopotamia. (The Ancient Near East Today)
- Kotryna Garanasvili takes us behind the scenes of translation by explaining translation-adjacent activities. (Words Without Borders)
- Rachel Ulatowski reveals the gobsmackingly large amount spent dealing book censorship in the US in the last year. (The Mary Sue)
- Dostoevsky is having a moment on BookTok. Imogen West-Knight explains. (The Guardian)
- Shari Boodts discusses the usually unknown medieval scribes who cranked out books before the printing press debuted in Europe. (Medievalists.net)
- …and censorship news, brought to you by the diligent folks of Book Riot.
