Weekend reads: Week of April 4, 2026

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

• Profiles of debut novelist Woody Brown: "I thought I would be caged my whole life" (The New York Times) and "I was in the pit of despair (The Guardian)

• Meet the voice of romantasy audiobooks' biggest heartthrobs (NPR)

• The nine Black students arrested for reading at a segregated library (Smithsonian magazine)

• Overlooked no more: Gertrude Chandler Warner, author of The Boxcar Children (The New York Times)

• 16 strangers, one 304-page book, and a weekend of reading aloud (The New York Times)

• My years-long fight to say “they” (The Nation)