Weekend reads: Week of March 7, 2025

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

• From the gut: A literary history of indigestion (VQR)

• What is litRPG? (Book Riot) 

• Why Oscar Wilde's play about a Biblical temptress was banned in Britain (Smithsonian magazine)

• Are we in a golden age of plagiarism? (Book Riot)

• How a shocking act of literary vandalism helped a family start again (The New York Times)

• Twin curtains: Oz and the USSR (JSTOR)