- Flora Champy looks to classic authors and addresses the apparently never-settled question about the benefits of reading literature. (Aeon)
- Tamara Fuentes takes us to the no-so-triumphant return of BookCon. (Cosmopolitan)
- Yasmin Rufo covers the launch of BookTok’s bestseller list—which means I have yet another place to monitor to make sure I’m buying books for my library that the youths will read. (BBC)
- Max Rudin explains how one publishing project helped define the list of classic American literature. (LitHub)
- Lewis Wyman shares the letter Melvil Dewey (huge misogynist) wrote to register the copyright for his new Dewey Decimal System. (LOC Blog)
- Valerie Fridland explains why so many English speakers loathe the word “moist.” I have no problem with it; the word just makes me think of cake. (LitHub)
- The American Library Association just published their list of the most frequently banned books in the United States in 2025. (ALA)
- Emma Loffhagan has numbers about the still-growing numbers of book bans in the US. (The Guardian)
- …and Kelly Jensen’s weekly dispatch of censorship news. (Book Riot)
