- This week’s big news (REALLY BIG NEWS) is that a scholar believes that an annotated copy of Shakespeare contains John Milton’s handwritten notes! (OpenCulture)
- Joe Pinsker reports on the science of how readers are made, not born. (The Atlantic)
- Alison Flood discusses another lexicon kerfuffle this week: a petition signed by nearly 30,000 people to have Oxford University Press rewrite sexist definitions in their dictionaries. (The Guardian)
- Emily Temple writes about that one time a poet got himself killed by writing a poem to the wrong married woman. (LitHub)
- It’s Banned Books Week in the US, so it’s appropriate that Brendan Brown mapped out banned books around the world. (Global English Editing)
- Elisabeth Cook has created a list of books that present a challenge to both reader and author: Oulipian and constraint books, in which the author set themselves an arbitrary rule like never using the letter ‘e.’ (Book Riot)
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