- Charlie Hebdo cover marks anniversary of fatal attack. (Entertainment Weekly)
- PEN International leads free speech organizations in rally for the “right to offend.” (The Guardian)
- Neither a borrower nor a lender be: U.K. Royal Mint releases keepsake coins commemorating Shakespeare and Beatrix Potter. (Slate)
- J.K. Rowling supports poet Musa Okwonga’s call to “challenge rampant misogyny” after New Year’s sexual assaults in Cologne. (The Guardian)
- University of Texas to digitize Gabriel García Márquez’s 24,000-page archive. (Los Angeles Times)
- The Bill Gates book sales bump and how the billionaire finds time to be a book critic. (The New York Times)
- Emma Watson crowdsources name for her new feminist book club, invites J.K. Rowling and Taylor Swift to join. (Time)
- The importance of body representation in comics. (Panels)
- Roxane Gay on her forthcoming memoir about eating and body image. (Entertainment Weekly)
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