Fussy’s favorites: The late May 2021 edition

It’s easy to miss the occasional post or two online, so we’ve rounded up some of the highlights from our reader blog from the past two weeks.

Old books 

• Read this post before trying to donate books 

• Here's what the Magna Carta smells like

School is in session  

• A Victorian-era Greek dictionary has finally been modernized

• Authors' attitudes about punctuation marks 

• The first author to use the term “T-shirt” in a book

Obituaries  

• Beloved children's author Eric Carle has died 

• Chicka Chicka Boom Boom illustrator Lois Ehlert has died 

From the archives 

• Scholars scramble to save Philip Roth's papers from being burned 

• Estate urged to publish John Steinbeck's werewolf novel 

• Professor says he's identified a book from Shakespeare's library

• Pressure is on to save the Brontës' papers and Oscar Wilde's jail 

Screens and stages 

• When Justice Sleeps will have sequels and a TV adaptation 

• Hilary Mantel's third Cromwell novel is also coming to the stage

• Timothée Chalamet is the next Willy Wonka 

• Modern retelling of Anna Karenina is coming to Netflix