This week on the bookish internet

• Lincoln Michel responds to the question, would the scandalous books of our past be publishable now? (CounterCraft)
• Susan DeFreitas reflects on a year spent reading the novels of Ursula K. Le Guin. (LitHub)
• Grace Lapointe looks into how annotated editions of classic novels are put together. (Book Riot)
• Nadra Nittle explains the phenomenon of soft censorship. (The 19th News)
• Kathryn Walton discusses the earliest known version of the Cinderella story, from ninth-century China. (Medievalists.net)
• Aaron Wright talks to librarians and activists tackling the problem of “book deserts” in Baltimore. (The Baltimore Banner)