The books come from its list of best titles of the year and will be available at three flagship library branches. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Thursday. Today we’ll find out why the New York ...
If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. The NYPL is offering unlimited e-book access for some of their best-of-the-year titles Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant ...
When the president unexpectedly fired the librarian of Congress, a prominent legislator denounced the “open despotism which now rules at Washington.” The year was 1829, and as Andrew Jackson installed ...
The challenge here is clearly highlighted on the book’s cover, where “positive” is coloured a bright shiny yellow. After all, we know how tipping points work – a small change makes a big, sometimes ...
Q: I read in Susan Orlean’s The Library Book that libraries fumigated books for public health reasons. Do they still do that? —Carol Frank | Los Angeles That practice was used in the late 19th and ...
Henri-Pierre Picou’s “Andromeda Chained to a Rock” (1874) depicts a buxom, naked woman held prisoner on a promontory; a bat-faced monster threatening her; and a muscular, semiclad young man wielding a ...
Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America. By Sam Tanenhaus. Random House; 1,040 pages; $40 and £33 A superb biography of William F. Buckley, the most influential American journalist ...
Hawkes Library in West Point and Point University’s Servant Leaders are kicking off the holiday season in style this week. They’re hosting a free Christmas Book and Movie Night on Thursday, Dec. 4, ...
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