- Molly Templeton has sage advice about taking the “should” out of our reading lives. (Reactor)
- I was surprised to learn that the current holder of the longest sentence in literature record is not Henry James or Nathaniel Hawthorne but William Faulkner. (Open Culture)
- PEN America has a new report about book banning during the 2023-2024 US school year. (PEN America)
- Premee Mohamed writes in praise of the Gormenghast trilogy. (Reactor)
- Andrea Barrett relishes the way that historical fiction constantly reinvents itself. (LitHub)
- Chason Gordon offers a brief history of library ladders (and, yes, I do wish I had a home library with ladders). (Slate)
- Clare Richard reflects on translation, disability, and neurodivergence. (Words Without Borders)
- …and censorship news from the wonderful people of Book Riot.
