This week on the bookish internet

• Did you know that Harry Potter has been translated into Yiddish (a language I love even though I don’t speak it)? Yair Rosenberg tells the story. (Tablet)
• Kelly Braffet reflects on the girl v. girl trope in fiction. (Tor)
• Speaking of tropes, S.F. Whitaker takes a look at haunted houses in fiction—one of my favorite settings. (Book Riot)
• Vikram Chandra wrote a story so big that he kept losing track of it, which led him to create an author’s helper program years later. (Wired)
• Aaaaaaand Barnes & Noble has walked back their idiotic “diverse” cover run of classic titles. (The Guardian)