- Nikki DeMarco has “romance tropes for neurodivergent readers.” (Book Riot)
- Jaimie Seaton explains the sinister turn of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. (ProPublica)
- Speaking of sinister, Katherine Kelaidis finds a lot of troubling changes in the new official dictionary of Russian. (LitHub)
- Leah Schnelbach sees our present in Snow Crash and Infinite Jest. (Reactor)
- Lincoln Michel encourages the literary world to develop a “punk rock mindset.” (CounterCraft)
- Christine Jacobsen recounts the fascinating history of women who typed for some of the great men of literature. (The Public Domain Review)
- Colin Marshall presents another mysterious book that no one can read, the Rohonc Codex. (Open Culture)
- Texas is muzzling visiting authors and leading to some authors’s visits to be canceled. Kelly Jensen reports. (Book Riot)
- Medievalists.net dishes up twenty rules from the University of Angers, written in 1431.
- Ty Tagami brings us the latest on a proposed Georgia, US law that could put librarians in jail. (The August Chronicle)
- …and Kelly Jensen’s censorship news: January 30 and February 6. (Book Riot)
