Weekend reads: Week of November 29, 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 (a bit early, because of the Thanksgiving holiday).

• How Jane Austen fans are celebrating the author's 250th birthday (The New York Times) 

• Dumb ways to die: Printed ephemera (I Love Typography)

• How newly translated stories reveal Chekhov’s silly side (The Guardian)

• How crossword puzzles underwrote three of America's major book publishers (Literary Hub)

• Hennepin County reveals Prince library card (Mpls St Paul magazine)