- Pamela Paul to helm all New York Times books coverage. (The New York Times Company)
- The literary canon behind Netflix’s Stranger Things. (The New Yorker)
- Original Winnie-the-Pooh toys get makeover. (The Huffington Post)
- Toronto lands fourth on list of best cities in the world for booklovers. (Quartz)
- Anna Paquin to star in Netflix/CBC Alias Grace miniseries. (Deadline Hollywood)
- NFL Seattle Seahawk Michael Bennett founds team book club. (Los Angeles Times)
- Indie house Akashic goes back to press with Olympic swimmer Anthony Ervin’s memoir. (Publishers Weekly)
- The case against book lending. (Read it Forward)
- Mr. Men and Little Misses series gets unpopular makeover for its 45th anniversary. (The Telegraph)
- Australian artist Marina Abramović gets slammed for racist passage in forthcoming memoir. (Mashable)
- Literary drinking games. (BookRiot)
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