This week on the bookish internet

• Aaron R. Hanlon wades through the responses to Salman Rushdie’s stabbing and our current fighting about freedom of speech and what people do about the speech they don’t like. (The New Republic)
• Gretchen Corsillo talks about the rising wave of hate directed at librarians. (Salon)
• Emily Temple briefly reports on a study that shows that reading can help children develop more equitable views of gender. (LitHub)
• Writing authentic-sounding swearing is tricky. Cole Rush looks at how a couple of fantasy/science fiction writers tackled the challenge. (Tor)
• Anna Grace Lee goes in search of those handy-dandy reading recommendation flowcharts that have been popping up online. (New York Times)
• Margot Atwell takes a look at how big publishing views independent publishers: like the minor leagues. (LitHub)
• Elizabeth Smithrosser takes us back to the Middle Ages to see how Chinese librarians took care of the books in their charge. (Medievalists)
• Your weekly hit of censorship news, courtesy of Book Riot.

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