This week on the bookish internet

• Jamie Canaves rightly doesn’t like it when mental illness is used as a plot twist in mystery novels. (Book Riot)
• Emily Temple writes in praise of parentheses and literary interjections (which I also love). (LitHub)
• More praise! Dorothy Bennett writes in praise of angry girls in fiction. (Tor)
• Lincoln Michel takes a look at how economics shapes the length of books. (Counter Craft)
• Danika Ellis has advice for writing book reviews. (Book Riot)
• Valerie Stivers cooks along with…Herman Melville. (The Paris Review)