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As many Twin Cities area immigrant families shelter at home, literacy organizations from Minnesota and beyond are re-upping their efforts to get multilingual books and other resources into the hands of the state’s youngest readers. Inkluded is collaborating with Penguin Random House to provide early-career opportunities to publishing professionals from diverse backgrounds, the nonprofit’s third such partnership with a Big Five house. Drawn & Quarterly is also partnering with PRH to streamline its distribution across all sales channels, beginning September 1. Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, considered a contender for the 2028 Democratic presidential candidacy, is publishing a book focused on his Christian faith this September, per the Washington Post. The Columbia Journalism Review argues that younger generations are passionate about keeping criticism alive in the mass media. Meanwhile, the Guardian spotlights a clandestine Afghan book club in which women, barred from education, defy the Taliban through reading. Dirt’s Tasteland podcast speaks with indie bookseller James Webster, the co-owner of Recluse Books in Dallas-Fort Worth. Shakespeare is returning to Broadway this fall with a new production of Much Ado About Nothing starring Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell, per the New York Times. And Lily King and John U. Bacon once again topped the IPC’s Indie Press Top 40 fiction and nonfiction lists, respectively.