Weekend reads: Week of March 21, 2025

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

• Banned historical fiction books (Book Riot)

• The end of reading (Plain English podcast)

• Are we having a romance renaissance? (Book Riot) 

• Sometimes, I wonder if I accidentally bumped off JD Salinger (Seb Lester)

• Richard Scarry and the art of children’s literature (The Yale Review) 

• Richard Blair on life with his extraordinary father, George Orwell (The Guardian)

• The unbelievable scale of AI’s pirated-books problem (The Atlantic)