An editor at Exberliner, the English-language monthly magazine for expats in Germany's capital, considers the quirky ways in which Deutsch and English mix in Berlin — and what it means to be a native speaker of the tongue everybody else uses as a second language. - The European Review of Books
Publishers and libraries ought to be on the same side: libraries aim to advance learning by providing free and open access to information; publishing literally means to disseminate to the public. Big publishers suing a digital library—during an unprecedented assault on libraries’ purpose and function—is a weird look. - The Walrus
Two Kiev-based publications, Solomiya and Telegraf, and a dissident magazine from inside Russia, BL8D (pronounced "blood"), are using visual art, fashion photography, interviews and essays to engage young people in Ukraine and Europe with the conflict and, hopefully, contribute to aid organizations. - The Guardian
"The staff of Paper Magazine, the pop culture publisher made famous by the 2014 'Break the Internet' photo shoot with Kim Kardashian, was laid off Wednesday. … The publisher itself is not shuttering, but is instead seeking to cut costs as it looks toward alternative options to remain in operation." - Adweek
"A longtime librarian at Roxbury High School in Morris County (New Jersey) has sued a group of residents she says defamed her by falsely claiming her library has pornographic books and she is a child predator." - NJ.com
We all recognise how important self-care is and that books help you feel part of a bigger world. Which is why we choose to read diversely and share good reads with each other. - Psyche
"Poetry slam is one of the few examples we have of a 'language game'. ... t is a place to play with words, and that is the entire point of the gathering: to think aloud under pressure and work out arguments in ensemble." - The Nation
"BuzzFeed News was 'a social media ecosystem company, and the ecosystem went away,' said a former BuzzFeed exec. 'HuffPost was a pre-social media company. And then got eclipsed by BuzzFeed in the social media age. And then as social media goes away, HuffPost is still there among the rocks.'" - Digiday
"As of April 1, the average entry-level salary for publishing employees located in New York City at the Big Five trade publishers and Scholastic was $47,583, up from $38,583 before the Covid-19 pandemic. … That marks an increase of 23.3%, during a period when prices rose 12.4%." - Publishers Weekly
It would, of course, be an anachronism to dub Shakespeare an environmentalist. But he was acutely aware of what we would term the environmental issues of his era. - The Conversation
Punctuation can be a nuisance; it is often simply neglected. Wrong! The most recent statistical analyses paint a different picture: punctuation seems to "grow out" of the foundations shared by all the (examined) languages, and its features are far from trivial. - Phys
"The ALA ... said in 2022 it had seen the highest number of reports of calls to remove or restrict books since it began compiling data more than 20 years ago." They had to expand their annual list of most-banned titles, too. - The Guardian
With 2023 marking 400 years since the publication of Shakespeare’s First Folio, it is exciting to see how the Bard’s plays spoke to significant developments in the 16th-century mathematical world. - The Conversation
The book world is salivating. "Imagine the post-modernist-Austenite novel that would have been! Imagine the Mantel treatment being given to poor Charlotte Lucas, not-quite-good-enough-and-not-rich-enough and doomed to serve as vessel for the world’s most boring man." - LitHub
