Footnotes, January 2022: Book links from around the web

At The Reading List, we’re trainspotters when it comes to interesting book links, and here are a number that caught our eye.

Breaking! The new novel by Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere, is called Our Missing Hearts and will be published in October.
… aaaand Ian McEwan’s ‘most epic book to date’ is to be published in September.
Meanwhile, an eight-year-old hid his self-made book on a library shelf. Now there’s a waiting list to take it out.
Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Shuffle, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’ The Love Songs of WEB DuBois and a debut story collection by Anthony Veasna So, a promising writer who died before his book was published, are among this year’s nominees for National Book Critics Circle awards.
‘I’m tryna write for people who don’t read. Who don’t give a shit about books.’ Find out more about the author of the new novel Fuccboi.
Station Eleven: a look at what the show changed from the book (warning: spoilers!).
Author and poet Maya Angelou has become the first Black woman to appear on a US quarter.
Literary provocateur Michel Houellebecq’s new novel, ‘Annihilate‘, will be his last, he says.
In a weird confluence of factoids, Americans read fewer books in 2021 than in any year since 1990, but book sales in the UK were the highest in a decade.
The art of the plot twist – a thrill that’s hard to match.
Take some time out in George Orwell’s rose garden (which is still thriving, over 70 years since his death).
Translated novels are bigger than ever. Yet in most cases the translators are only discreetly acknowledged.
The Novel World of Bibliotherapy: How literature is helping people navigate mental health issues.
In the bitchy world of book reviews, the hatchet job is back with a vengeance.
Do you set yourself annual reading goals? Or do you scoff at people who set themselves reading goals?
The bookshop owner who has saved 200,000 books from the landfill – and counting.
Decolonising Shakespeare: reinterpretations of Othello in Ghana and Pericles in Glasgow bring new meanings to the text.
Hanya Yanagihara’s highly anticipated new novel To Paradise has just been published. Like its predecessor, it’s a book in which horrible things happen to people for no reason.