What are libraries for? Apparently, they’re tool storage facilities where people can also be at work. At least, that seems to be the understanding of Rebecca Stavick, executive director of Omaha, Nebraska’s… Read more »

Traditionally, if one wanted a book, one would walk or drive or take the train to the nearest bookstore, where they would make their selection, hand over a couple bills,… Read more »

Joan Didion famously wrote: We tell ourselves stories in order to live … We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder… Read more »

The New York Public Library has just released high-resolution versions of its massive collection of public domain images, all completely free of charge. Under the aegis of the library’s Public… Read more »

If you’re interested in hearing the brilliant, sometimes-contentious Slovenian philosopher and Melville House author Slavoj Žižek discuss political correctness, the 2008 financial crisis, and what he sees as one of Malcolm X’s… Read more »

We’ve seen robots that commit homicide and robots that buy Ecstasy on the Dark Net. Now, in the next step toward the inevitable robot uprising, an actual literal Judgement Day, Dutch… Read more »

Do you suffer from the horrors of TL; DR syndrome? If you’re interested in nonfiction books but daunted by the prospect of actually reading all those pesky words, there’s an… Read more »

As a new stage production of Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis reveals, it’s waking up as a robot. The Japanese director Oriza Hirata has cast a robot to play the part… Read more »

Ikea, a furniture company known for its innovations in cheap furniture production, lingonberry sauce distribution, and old-growth forest clear-cutting technology, has released an ad for its new catalog that is… Read more »

Good news, everyone! You no longer have to worry about some ignorant internet user ruining your day by misusing “literally.” Developer Mike Walker has come to the rescue of those… Read more »