- Nitish Pahwa explains why Trump and his ilk are targeting the tiny but mighty Institute of Museum and Library Services. (Slate)
- Maris Kreizman addresses the existential threat faced by literary magazines in the wake of a massive cancellation of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. If you read any of the publications Kreizman mentions, please consider subscribing if you can. (LitHub)
- It warms my heart to see people showing up at the polls for their libraries. Marty Schladen reports from Ohio. (Ohio Capital Journal)
- Lara Elena Donnelly discusses blending history with fantasy and vice versa. (Reactor)
- Jaclynn Ashly profiles Abdallah Ali Sherif, who has been working for more than a decade to restore books bound in the traditional Harari style and his cultural heritage. (Al Jazeera)
- Randee Dawn shares her thoughts on trunk novels and unpublished early novels. (LitHub)
- PBS has a great write-up of the shocking and disheartening firing of Dr. Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress.
- Nikhil Mahant thinks that extraterrestrial languages will probably be a lot weirder than we think and points out the complexity of several terrestrial linguistic concepts. (Aeon)
- There is a special circle in hell for people who take books out of the library with the intention of stealing them to keep them away from other readers. Jeff Piorkowski writes about a man who may have stolen nearly $2,000 in books about LGBTQ+ topics, African American history, and Jewish history. (Cleveland.com)
- Leonie Swann muses on writers and their dogs. (Crimereads)
- Cheryl Eddy recounts how Worldcon has, once again, covered themselves in scandal. (Gizmodo)
- Florida book banners are now going after bookstores. Dakota Parks has the latest. (NBC)
- …and this week’s serving of censorship news, courtesy of the amazing people of Book Riot.
