Weekend reads: Week of November 22, 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.

• Mapmakers used to make up fake towns in order to catch plagiarists (Literary Hub) 

• The secret to getting through big, dense, difficult books (The New York Times) 

• 10 fun terms from Merriam-Webster's newly updated collegiate dictionary (Writer's Digest)