- This Halloween, it is once again time to wonder how Edgar Allan Poe died—with a round-up of 19 theories by the crew at Open Culture.
- Akvilė Kavaliauskaitė reflects on her relationship to Lithuanian and global culture. (LitHub)
- Xiaolu Guo discusses “disrupting” the Western canon with her retelling of an American classic. (Words Without Borders)
- R. Nassor explains why books have gotten so damned expensive. (Book Riot)
- Maddie Martinez argues that we’re in a new revival of medievalism. (Reactor)
- Brittany Allen has an infuriating update on the case of Karen Cahall, a teacher who was fired for not getting rid of books in her classroom. (LitHub)
- Abigail Owens likes cliffhangers. (BookTrib)
- Kelly Jensen reports the latest on Texas’s horrible READER Act, which would affect booksellers as well as librarians. (Book Riot)
- Philip Goldfarb Styrt looks to Julius Caesar in a time of tyranny, injustice, and mass anger. (Daily JSTOR)
- Joshua Blackburn offers a very quick overview of what we know (and a lot we don’t know) about where English words and expressions come from. (LitHub)
- …and Kelly Jensen’s weekly round-up of censorship news.
