Weekend reads: Week of May 16, 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.

• Famous novelists' children on following in their parents’ footsteps (The Guardian) 

• What happens when we lose a language? (The Guardian)

• This bookstore gets good mileage (The New York Times)

• Notorious serial killer Ed Kemper narrated hundreds of audiobooks from prison (People)

• When the librarians fought the archivists over who gets the Declaration of Independence (Literary Hub)

• Six ways to see rare books in London (The New York Times)

• Hollywood needs to stop hot-washing literary adaptations (Literary Hub)