- Eric Stroshane inaugurates a series debunking lies and misinformation about libraries, to help us fight against defunding, censorship, and more. (Office of Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association)
- Christopher Wiggins reports on efforts in Tennessee to capture borrower’s personal information and their implications. (The Advocate)
- Sam Jones talks to Diego Arboleda, who recently adapted a Renaissance-era tale from Spain by Beatriz Bernal into a book for children. (The Guardian)
- Hannah Kim muses on plot and plotlessness. (Los Angeles Review of Books)
- CT Jones predicts trends for BookTok. (Rolling Stone)
- Gail Sherman shares an interesting historical and lexicographical tidbit: Merriam-Webster’s backwards index. (Boing Boing)
- James Harbeck unspools the etymology of “stuff.” (Sequiotica)
- Karen Lee tells the story of the time Robert Louis Stevenson gave away his birthday. (Newspapers.com Blog)
- Jess deCourcy Hinds checks in with bibliotherapists. (LitHub)
- Kevin Ruane writes in praise of Graham Greene’s The Quiet American. (Jacobin)
- The crew of Book Marks rounds up a selection of “the most scathing reviews of 2025.“
- Kelly Jensen curates the latest censorship news: December 19 and December 26
