This week on the bookish internet

• Alissa J. Rubin shares her thoughts about poetry in war zones. (New York Times)
• Yashvi Peeti suggests places online to talk about books with other people. (Book Riot)
• Peggy McGlone reports that people are up in arms about planned renovations/preservation work at the Library of Congress. (Washington Post)
• Emily Temple rounds up the bookplates of famous writers. (LitHub)
• Mary Bustillos relates the latest legal fight between the Internet Archive’s Open Library and the big publishers. This might sound off topic or boring but the case could affect the ability of public libraries to loan ebooks. (The Nation)
• Emma Sarappo explores recent fiction and non-fiction that wrestles with climate change. (The Atlantic)
• Amelia Tait shows us why people need to stop tagging authors in their social media posts of negative reviews. (WIRED)
• Jerome Groopman reflects on physician-writers and the importance of medical storytelling. (The New Yorker)
• Richard Hughes Gibson dives into the history of the paragraph, one of the many ubiquitous concepts that everyone knows but struggles to define. (The Hedgehog Review)
• And your weekly installment of censorship news, via Book Riot.

Advertisement