Weekend reads: Week of October 11, 2025

Here's a collection of literary posts that we didn't share on our reader blog this past week but thought were worth highlighting.

• My child does not love to read, and I'm (starting to be) okay with that (Literary Hub) 

• Hisn, hern, yourn, ourn: On possessives in the absolute position (A Way with Words) 

• The race to save a medieval Palestinian library (Literary Hub) 

• The Pushkin job: Unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist (The Guardian) 

• In line at the midnight release of Thomas Pynchon's Shadow Ticket (Literary Hub)