- Lincoln Michel looks to fiction for philosophy and finds many titles to recommend. (Counter Craft)
- Ed Simon reflects on bibliomania. (LitHub)
- Patricia T. O’Conner and Stewart Kellerman explain where grammatical gender may have come from. (Grammarphobia)
- Nikki DeMarco is very thoughtful about the “ghosts” in libraries and librarianship. (Book Riot)
- Johanna Winant still marvels at what close reading can do for the mind, even after years of teaching students at West Virginia University before it cut humanities courses. (Boston Review)

