Weekend reads: Week of July 25, 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.

• Doubleday VP and executive editor discusses the publisher’s new reissue series (Language Arts on Substack) 

• How reading became sexy (The Guardian)

• Inside Los Angeles’s beloved art deco library as it turns 100 (The Guardian)

• The legacy of Lunigiana's traveling booksellers (Literary Hub)

• To sell Homer’s Odyssey, publishers, like its hero, get crafty (The New York Times)

• On the possible existence of multiple Homers (Literary Hub)

• Fourth Wing and ACOTAR will face off this fall (Book Riot)

• Who should narrate audiobooks, authors or actors? (Literary Hub)