This week on the bookish internet

• Amitava Kumar recounts the metaphorical life and death of Tamil writer Perumal Murugan, who ran afoul of conservative Indians with his excellent novel, One Part Woman (my review). (The New Yorker)
• Vivienne Woodward’s invention ideas for the bookish life are pretty awesome. (Book Riot)
  • Pair with: Abby Hargreaves’ round up of furniture made of books from Instagram. (Book Riot)
• Johanna Thomas-Corr asks, what is it with women and fiction? (The Guardian)
• Alia Wong discusses the near loss and resurgence of the Hawaiian language, and what it means for indigenous ways of learning and knowing. (The Atlantic)
• Marcos Gonsalez confronts—and asks us to confront—the problematic whiteness of Jane Austen…and how it inspired writers of color to retell Austen from their point of view. (LitHub)