- Ellen O’Connell Whittet writes in praise of Dolly Parton and her Imagination Library. (LitHub)
- Kalyn Gensic issues a challenge to Texas’s book-banning lieutenant governor: come and take them! (Texas Observer)
- Joanna Nelius-Free argues for the necessity of cyberpunk in these trying times. (Reactor)
- Madeline Zehnder takes a look at stories narrated by objects. (LitHub)
- Lin Xiaoyi talks to Huang Gang, who digitizes ancient Chinese texts at the Tianyige Museum in Ningbo, China. (Global Times)
- Scott Brown offers a run-down of companies working to feed AI training by acquiring and destroying books. (Dispatches from the Rare Book Trade)
