Weekend reads: Week of June 28, 2025

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

• Is the decline of reading poisoning our politics? (Vox)

• What it took to publish a first novel as a newly minted septuagenarian (Substack)

• How to begin reading for fun as an adult (Book Riot) 

• How ‘annotating’ books went from big no-no to BookTok’s next trend (The Guardian)

• Why oppressive fictional — and real — societies suppress reading (Book Riot)