- Emily Temple has the odds on who might win this year’s Nobel for literature. (LitHub)
- A full panel of experts document “the normalization of book banning.” (PEN America)
- Nicola Woolcock talks to UK academics about “reading resilience” courses for university students. (The Times)
- Mark Migotti frets that he has a Wodehouse problem. (The Walrus)
- Jonny Diamond asks, “how many books is too many?” (LitHub)
- Kelly Jensen reports on an astoundingly terrifying wave of bomb threats recently called in against US universities. (Book Riot)
- Matthew Wills takes a look at the historical targets of Jonathan Swift’s satirical “A Modest Proposal.” (Daily JSTOR)
- I am utterly baffled by the decision to market a novel with garlic mayo. Vanessa Armstrong doesn’t even attempt to explain this news. (Reactor Magazine)
- Seamus Sullivan muses on what mythology and epics give us. (LitHub)
- Kelly Jensen has the latest on yet another awful book banning ruling in Florida. (Book Riot)
- …and even more censorship news from Kelly Jensen, my hero, at Book Riot.
