I spent yesterday with more than 5,000 librarians. A few were library aides, and some were library trustees. When I was in elementary school, I would go to my school library and get help from Mrs.

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Three years ago, I was in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, walking through what had once been a large fabric mill. It has since been turned into an art gallery called, appropriately, La Fabrica, where ...

The book “Killed to Order” claims the Chinese government takes organs from prisoners, including members of the religious ...

Bid winter farewell and say hello to an array of exciting new books.

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. The novelist Henry Miller once observed that “a book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you.” If ...

If you haven’t seen the 50-minute conversation between actor Eric Dane and screenwriter/producer Brad Falchuk called “Famous Last Words” on Netflix, I recommend that you wrap yourself in a snug ...

Sometimes it seems funny how things go, but often, if one looks hard enough, one can see why. In 2020, elaborating Giorgio Agamben’s pandemic perspectives, one of the two authors of Nihilist Communism ...

In April of 2023, when I was fresh out of a Ph.D. program in philosophy, I was hired as the nonfiction critic at the newly revived books section of the Washington Post. The shock to my system was ...

THE WHISTLERS’ ROOM—Paul Alverdes —Covici-Friede ($1.50). In a German hospital overlooking the Rhine was one ward known as the Whistlers’ Room. Here were four men who had been shot through the throat; ...