- Mark Harman shares fascinating insights from years of studying and translating Franz Kafka. (Lithub)
- Adam J. Smith shouts out the women of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century satire. (The Conversation)
- Vicky Delany prefers to write about what she does not know yet. (Crime Reads)
- Martha Barnette revels in etymology. (LitHub)
- Harrison Stetler finds Mother Courage and Her Children especially relevant these days. (Jacobin)
- …and, as always, censorship news from the diligent people of Book Riot.

