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And the rest of the week’s best writing on books and related subjects.

Welcome to Vox’s weekly book link roundup, a curated selection of the internet’s best writing on books and related subjects. Here’s the best the web has to offer for the week of January 13, 2019.

• At the Atlantic, Amy Hawkins and Jeffrey Wasserstrom walk through what censorship looks like in China — and why it means that you couldn’t reference 1984 on social media there last winter, but you could still buy...