Weekend reads: Week of December 20, 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.

• Hear James Baldwin, e.e. cummings, Mary Oliver, and more (The New York Times) 

• Thomas Paine's “Common Sense” turns 250 (The New York Times) 

• Are we falling out of love with nonfiction? (The Guardian)

• Oliver Sacks put himself in his case studies; what was the cost? (The New Yorker)

• How Hamnet was adapted from the page to the screen (Electric Literature)