Weekend reads: Week of July 18, 2026

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

• The New Yorker whose landlord objected to the 10,000 books in his studio apartment (The New York Times)

• Harriet the Spy author Louise Fitzhugh shared an incendiary nature with her main character (People)

• How should we reckon with Allen Ginsberg’s complex legacy? (The Guardian)

• How to get more out of your reading (Book Riot)