Your weekly links to interesting stories from the world of libraries and archives, books and publishing, and information science. Got a hot tip? Please send it to Kate.Cushon@uregina.ca (tipsters will be credited!). Politics and libraries: “It Is Becoming Impossible to Remain Neutral.” The Man Booker International Prize 2017 shortlist has been announced. “This is What a Modern-Day Witch Hunt Looks Like”: Academia and the fallout from unpopular and dangerous scholarship. Ben Lerner on the porous boundaries between literature, truth, and plagiarism. The New York Public Library created a list of their favourite fictional librarians.