- Jenny Ashcraft shares lost love stories from old newspapers. (Fishwrap)
- Tom Ellison presents Books, for MenTM. (McSweeney’s)
- We are what we eat. We are also what we read, so it makes complete sense to me that people on dating apps have opinions about what potential partners are reading. Emma Loffhagen speaks with daters. (The Guardian)
- Around 300 people showed up for an anti-book banning read-in at the Utah State Capitol. Carmen Nesbitt reports. (Salt Lake Tribune)
- Two articles in The Guardian are great news for me. Reading and drinking caffeinated beverages can lower the risk of dementia.
- Lorris Chevalier recounts the stories of Sir Moriaen, King Arthur’s Black (as in African) knight. (Medievalists.net)
- Sasha Senderovich and Harriet Murav discuss new complexity in translating Holocaust literature. (LitHub)
- Shawna Lipton has thoughts about the clinch, romance, the new Wuthering Heights movie, and why a lot of people are going to be unpleasantly surprised. (Public Books)
- Charlie Ericson explores the literature of hell and subversion. (Aeon)
- Taylor Seeley has news about a proposed Arizona bill that would criminalize librarians. (AZcentral)
- Bookseller Mitchell Kaplan explains why a proposed Florida law will make it even harder for kids to find books to read. (Miami New Times)
- Brittany Allen catches us up on the destruction of the Goddard Space Flight Center’s library. (LitHub)
- …and Kelly Jensen’s latest dispatch of censorship news. (Book Riot)
