Weekend reads: Week of September 5, 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.

• How should Adventures of Huckleberry Finn be taught? (The New York Times)

• Iceland has almost no homicides, yet crime is its favorite genre (The New York Times)

• Everything you need to know about the Rachel Cusk/Natalie Portman drama (Literary Hub)

• Why we love monsters, metaphorical and otherwise (Book Riot)

• Cats and owls and axolotls, oh my! The best library and bookstore pets (Book Riot)

• This interactive atlas captures more than a thousand literary journeys (Literary Hub)

• What do booksellers make of the "end of reading"? (Defector)

• Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections turns 25 (The New York Times)

• Artemis Fowl, celebrating his 25th anniversary, is one for the ages (The New York Times)

• On the time that Hans Christian Andersen had a tantrum in Charles Dickens’s garden (Aeon)