Weekend reads: Week of July 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.

• Dua Lipa is fighting book bans with a new "manifesto library" (People)

• On the first — and, so far, only — book ban case heard by the Supreme Court (Literary Hub)

• Influencer Hina says they started posted BookTok content after seeing a rise in "anti-intellectualism" online (People) 

• A poet for everyone, even those who don't read poetry (The New York Times)

• Couples tell us how books brought them together (The Guardian)

• Rare books on sex have spiced things up at a library Benjamin Franklin founded (The New York Times)