It can happen here. And it does. Frighteningly close to home. Last week, writes Adam Shrier for the New York Daily News, an arsonist broke into a Jewish school bus… Read more »

A Florida Man started a wildfire by burning books in his backyard. No jokes here, families were evacuated, and several homes were actually destroyed. For CNN, Christine Sever, Madison Park, and… Read more »

Teachers in Portland’s public schools will “abandon the use of any adopted text or material that is found to express doubt about the severity of the climate crisis or its… Read more »

Hey, so what’s going on with books in Russia? Last month, we reported on that weird thing where shirtless Russian teens filmed themselves burning copies of Henry Miller books that… Read more »

Henry Miller’s been protested before, and if recent news out of Krasnodar, Russia is any indicator, he’ll continue being protested for as long as we’re around. (Also, more notably, he’ll be read… Read more »

An Iraqi-American artist is using installation art to restock the University of Baghdad’s library. As Marta Bausells reports for The Guardian, Wafaa Bilal’s exhibition at the Gallery of Windsor in Ontario will… Read more »

The last half decade has seen Egypt’s government overthrown twice, punctuated by mob violence and periodic mass killings of demonstrators. Since the June 2014 election of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi,… Read more »

While George Clooney’s recent film The Monuments Men hasn’t received the greatest reviews, it has brought attention to the work that the officers for the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives… Read more »

If you couldn’t get rid of your old print encyclopedia any other way, would you burn it? That’s what author and philosopher Julian Baggini did recently in a field in… Read more »

As we wrote here on January 29th, there has been much concern in recent days about the status of many thousands of priceless manuscripts in the Malian city of Timbuktu.… Read more »