- Constance Grady tackles the discourse on whether or not the kids can read these days. (Vox)
- Jonathan Friedman and Tasslyn Magnusson address the stereotype that any story that features LGBTQ+ characters or themes is obscene. (School Library Journal)
- Christopher Wiggins has the latest on the infuriating firing of LaVonnia Moore, a Georgia librarian who had the temerity to place a book about a transgender child on display at her library. I wish her the best of luck and hope that she takes the bigots who fired her to the cleaners. (Advocate)
- David Polansky muses on Blood Meridian and Lonesome Dove, and what they have to say about the Western, the West, and violence. (The Hedgehog Review)
- Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante argue that we change how we think about genre. (LitHub)
- Keith Sawyer challenges the notion that creative writing is more than just getting into a groove. (The MIT Press Reader)
- I think it’s adorable that readers have discovered the joys of annotating their books. Caitlin Welch reports. (The Guardian)
- Rachel Ashcroft reflects on books that include untranslated text in multiple languages and their possible effects on readers. (LitHub)
- …and censorship news, served up by the good people of Book Riot.
