March 30, 2017

In these trying times—times characterized in this country by the imminent destruction of the Environmental Protection Agency (despite rising temperatures and tides), the precarious fate of our National Parks, and… Read more »

Libraries & librarians

Fundraiser sends more than 5,000 books to Ethiopia’s largest library — Nikki Griffiths
The Big Jubilee Read: 70 books are selected to mark Queen Elizabeth II's 70 year reign — Nikki Griffiths
Theories abound after anonymous return of Darwin's notebooks — Tom Clayton
"Wot, No Books?" Milton Keynes library saved after protesters check out its entire stock — Tom Clayton

The 1950s called and asked for their headline back

Nikki Griffiths

Tabloid newspaper the Daily Mail has caused outrage and been widely criticised over a sexist headline that ran on its front page last Tuesday, March 28th. Alongside a picture of British Prime Minister Theresa May and… Read more »

Clear your conscience: return that library book

Taylor Sperry

Who among us does not know the dread of discovering in her closet an old library book, a borrowed-from-an-ex book, or a very-much-on-temporary-loan-from-a-professor-with-sentimental-attachments-to-it book (just saying)? It’s very embarrassing—sometimes too… Read more »

Nobel Minus Zero / No Limit

Ian Dreiblatt

In what is slated to be one of the cutest acts ever undertaken by a group of Vikings, members of the Swedish Academy are loading up their fanny packs and… Read more »

Melville House Books

It’s the end of the world as we know it, and Norway’s gonna save the printed word

Chad Felix