Fussy’s favorites: Week of July 4, 2021

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

Shock and awe

• These researchers are using books to predict the future 

• New book: Trump said Hitler “did a lot of good things” 

Prized possessions 

• Sylvia Plath auction includes her wedding ring 

• Government tries to help keep ornithologist's drawings in the UK 

Austen adaptations 

• Here comes another modern-day take on "Pride and Prejudice" 

• A "Pride and Prejudice" dating show is coming to Peacock

Short stories 

• Free read: “Five-Pointed Spell” 

• Read a passage from Proust's The Seventy-Five Pages 

• Susan Choi wins the biggest short-story award