Weekend reads: Week of October 24, 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.

• What happens to books that are challenged but not banned in a high school library? (Book Riot)

• How an Edinburgh doctor inspired Sherlock Holmes (Literary Hub).

• The surprisingly long roots of romantasy (The Guardian)

• How the CIA smuggled liberal arts behind the Iron Curtain (The MIT Press Reader)

• On searching for Nabokov's rarest paperbacks across America (Literary Hub)