I also want to give a shout out one of my favorite bookish publications: Book Post. In addition to Book Post’s bite-sized reviews written by some of our best writers, editor Ann Kjellberg (formerly of The New York Review of Books) reflects on the evolution of our cultural infrastructure in her Notebooks series for subscribers. If you like my digests about the culture of reading, I highly recommend subscribing to Book Post for Ann’s weekly reflections about books, libraries, education and more—and, of course, for the stellar reviews. Book Post is also one of the few publications on Substack that compensates contributors. If you value the deep experience and time-consuming labor of human readers, writers and editors, please support independent, human-made publications like Book Post. Now onto the news…