- Peter Pomerantsev and Alina Dykhman share the story of a Ukrainian “book club” that rescues books from Russian invaders. (The Guardian)
- James Harbeck muses on one of my favorite words, persnickety, and its twin, pernickety. (Sequiotica)
- Binnie Kirschenbaum explores writing different kinds of truth in fiction. (LitHub)
- Donna Ferguson discusses the curious journey of an Arthurian manuscript that was recently rediscovered. (BBC)
- Surekha Davies takes us along on her adventure in the British Library’s map library and shares more reasons why ChatGPT is crap. (Notes from an Everything Historian)
- Rebecca Crosby has the latest on yet another bill that proposes to jail librarians over books—this time in Texas. (Mother Jones)
- Catherine Taylor writes in praise of Flannery O’Connor. (The Guardian)
- Jaime Hood argues that there is still a need for survivors of sexual assault, sexual harassment, and rape to tell their stories. (LitHub)
- Mike Olson explains why it’s a problem for the Library of Congress to obey Trump’s order to rename the Gulf of Mexico and Denali. (Scholarly Kitchen)
- Ralph Chapoco reports on supporters of Fairhope Public Library’s efforts to keep their library going after Alabama’s state government threatens to withhold funding. (Alabama Reflector)
- Anthony Lonetree and Zoë Jackson cover students and their parents fighting back against book banning at their schools. (Minnesota Star Tribune)
- …and censorship news from the wonderful people of Book Riot.
