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Libraries are already contending with crappy, AI-generated books.

Libraries are already contending with crappy, AI-generated books.

By James Folta | February 5, 2025

How Trump’s Illegal Administrative Coup Threatened Funding for Everything, Including Libraries.

How Trump’s Illegal Administrative Coup Threatened Funding for Everything, Including Libraries.

“They are not afraid to threaten vast swathes of vulnerable Americans—the point is to be cruel and to punish.”

By James Folta | January 30, 2025

It's official: Research has found that libraries make everything better.

It's official: Research has found that libraries make everything better.

By James Folta | January 28, 2025

Read Mosab Abu Toha's statement on the destruction of the Edward Said Library in Gaza.

Read Mosab Abu Toha's statement on the destruction of the Edward Said Library in Gaza.

By Dan Sheehan | January 24, 2025

Make 2025 the year you read more books in translation.

Make 2025 the year you read more books in translation.

By Brittany Allen | January 21, 2025

Stuck in a reading rut? Sign up for the annual Free Black Women's Library Reading Challenge.

Stuck in a reading rut? Sign up for the annual Free Black Women's Library Reading Challenge.

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According to library checkouts, New Yorkers read a lot of Gabrielle Zevin this year.

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Move over, Alexandria: A new exhibit features lost, imagined, and totally fake books.

Move over, Alexandria: A new exhibit features lost, imagined, and totally fake books.

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Joseph Earl Thomas wins The Center for Fiction’s 2024 First Novel Prize.

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Don’t cross the Strand Workers Union picket line!

Don’t cross the Strand Workers Union picket line!

By James Folta | December 9, 2024

A Refuge for the Soul: How to Build a Library, According to Montaigne

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Andrew Hui Considers the Innumerable Benefits of a Philosophical Room of One’s Own

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Spending Thanksgiving Eve at a bookstore is what the Founders intended.

Spending Thanksgiving Eve at a bookstore is what the Founders intended.

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