Libraries
Arts + Letters
4 weeks ago
Reading Books in Their Settings
I love this list from the New York Public Library about reading books set in New York City in New…
Arts + Letters
February 21, 2018
The Boy Who Lived in a Library
StoryCorp’s video memoir of Ronald Clark, who grew up living in the Washington Height’s public library, will make you yearn…
Arts + Letters
January 25, 2018
Literature as “the operating instructions,” in Memory of Ursula K. Le Guin
Le Guin’s essays are some of the loveliest prose I’ve read recently, her style outmatched only by her astuteness for…
Arts + Letters
October 11, 2016
Libraries as Lifelines
Libraries are the other public education system. In many ways, they have the potential to do things that public schools…