Kids are gearing up to head back into their petri dishes and bring you all sorts of pathological goodies. Enjoy the two weeks of six free hours a day, because after that I assume you’ll be sick for two months or have them back at home because not enough people in your community got vaccinated and now society is fucked. (Don’t we normally get a Giller Longlist soon? Maybe that will sustain us) Enjoy!

- CBC reviews 25 years of their flagship fiction program “Canada Reads Only Fiction Because That’s What Books Are — Only Fiction”;
- Today in Just Imagine Being Sally Rooney;
- British Academy Book Prize shortlist;
- Poet Amanda Gorman becomes face of Estée Lauder;
- How 1921’s fiction predicts 2021;
- Newly discovered scraps of paper reveal new take on Merlin;
- Why do we like mysteries that take place in schools?;
- New AI program distills research papers into a single sentence;