Weekend reads: Week of October 31, 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.

• No sleep until the end of The Bell Jar (The New York Times) 

• Who chooses the poems for the New York City subway? (Literary Hub) 

• Marlon James and Nicholas Boggs on life as a literary power couple (The Guardian)

• Harry Houdini was a serious book collector; here are some of his weirdest finds (Literary Hub)