Weekend reads: Week of June 13, 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.

• Inside the "hot girls read" trademark controversy outraging BookTokers (People) 

• Library patron privacy in the age of AI (EveryLibrary Institute) 

• Humans versus bots — who does the em dash better? (The New York Times) 

• Novels show us that we still haven't processed the COVID-19 pandemic (Current Affairs)

• What happened to the real children behind fiction’s best-loved characters? (The Guardian)