Weekend reads: Week of December 13, 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.

• Freeing the library (Los Angeles Review of Books) 

• Why Jane Austen's works still resonate, 250 years after her birth (NPR)

• How Colette was inspired by her many cats (Literary Hub)

• Beyond Winnie-the-Pooh: On A.A. Milne’s romance novels (Literary Hub)

• 20 Japanese words for rain (The MIT Press Reader) 

• "Every copy of The Lottery has been checked out from the Springfield Public Library" (Facebook)