Posted on May 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Catch up quick with the bookish news of the past few days ... or take a deeper dive into each story. Your choice! 

  • Esquire staffers have chosen the best books of 2025 so far and explain what they love about each title (Esquire).

  • The Trump administration has filed an appeal of a judge’s ruling that paused its dismantling of the Institute for Museum and Library Services (Book Riot).

  • Connecticut lawmakers have passed a law aimed at giving libraries the ability to negotiate digital lending deals; if the governor signs it into law, it'll be the nation's first such law since Maryland's attempt to do the same thing was stuck down over copyright concerns (Words & Money).

  • The Rev. David Tracy, author of nine books including The Analogical Imagination, died April 29 at age eighty-six (The New York Times).

Categories: Today in Books

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