Weekend reads (a day early): Week of May 9, 2025

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

• A look at "Poetry City" aka Iowa City (Public Books) 

• How The Great Gatsby took over high school (The New Yorker)

• Writer Lydia Kiesling on refusing to speak at an anti-trans university (Literary Hub)

• The vital importance of preserving the most obscured — and endangered — languages (Literary Hub)

• Choose your own adventure, endings only (McSweeney's Internet Tendency)