March 14, 2014

Lotte Fields, an avid reader and library patron, passed away at 89 and left a little money to her local library. That is, she left six million dollars to the… Read more »

Arts & Culture

Don’t just look at buildings --- read about them, too! — Alex Primiani
Revisiting the fine art of the Weiwei-ism for Ai Weiwei’s sixtieth birthday — Melville House
Tfw when you steal the Mona Lisa and hang on to it for two years — Melville House
An artist transforms Ovid’s Metamorphoses... with blood — Peter Kranitz

The Women’s Library has an identity crisis

Zeljka Marosevic

The Women’s Library, Europe’s oldest and most extensive collection of women’s history, has undergone a controversial relocation moving from its original site in Whitechapel, in London’s East End, to the… Read more »

Seattle campaigns to be named a UNESCO City of Literature

Julia Fleischaker

Seattle’s got the Space Needle. Frasier. The reigning Super Bowl champions. Macklemore. And one of the very best literary scenes in the country. Stores like The Elliott Bay Book Company and… Read more »

Saudi Arabian book fair removes “blasphemous” works by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish

James McQuade

The works of revered Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, who died in 2008, have been removed from the Riyadh International Book Fair in Saudi Arabia after objections to the “blasphemous” nature of… Read more »

The charming NYC guidebook the Czech secret police didn’t want you to see

Christopher King

Fifty years after it was first written and illustrated, a stylish book about life in New York City is getting a new life of its own. The book, New York:… Read more »

Melville House Books

Book-loving lady leaves $6 million to the NYPL

Kirsten Reach