Last week on the bookish internet

Kate Knibbs reports on the backpedaling Fable has been doing after their AI-generated “roasts” of readers go very wrong. (WIRED)
Constance Grady addresses the “men don’t read” discourse. (Vox)
James Harbeck meditates on the word “betweenness,” with help from T.S. Eliot. (Sesquiotica)
Soutik Biswas excavated the US government program that swapped books for food in the 1950s and 60s, to the benefit of libraries like the University of Chicago’s Regenstein library. (BBC)
El Kuiper takes a look at the recent trend of special editions of YA books. (The Mary Sue)
AI has struck books for lacemakers and gotten everything tangled up. Samantha Cole has the latest. At least this AI intrusion won’t potentially kill anyone like when it infested books about identifying mushrooms. (404 Media)
Speaking of AI, they’ve got the Encyclopedia Britannica now, too. Thomas Maxwell reports. (Gizmodo)
Maris Kreizman suggests ways to fight back against book banning and censorship. (LitHub)
…and, because it’s not going away, censorship news from the wonderful people of Book Riot.

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