- Emma Southon introduces us to the wild world of Roman romances. (LitHub)
- David Robson talks about Noah Webster and how Americans took English and ran with it. (BBC)
- Ed Simon also has thoughts about Noah Webster. (LitHub)
- Tom Hawking explores the long struggle of typesetters to properly print Arabic. (Gizmodo)
- Bridget Huber talks to librarians about how they help their community members avoid and disable AI. (Bangor Daily News)
- Michael Pollan muses on what modernists and other writers can teach us about how the brain works. (Lapham’s Quarterly)
- Alfred Jung Lee reflects on description. (The Believer)
- The Tehran Times reports that Linear Elamite has been deciphered.
- Carmen Nesbitt catches us up on an initiative by independent booksellers to give away copies of books that have been banned in Utah’s public schools. (Salt Lake Tribune)
- Brenda C. Wilson writes in praise of her childhood book mobile. (LitHub)
