Dua Lipa just wants to get the world to crack open a book. Since 2021, the pop star has championed literary arts with her Service95 book club. Now, Lipa is moving that mission forward by opening her ...

A book of poetry that survived the catastrophic 1906 earthquake and fire has been returned to the Mechanics’ Institute. By Adeel Hassan Faded ink stamps of the Mechanics’ Institute Library dot the ...

Inside a charred book, pages dotted in soot stains tell the story of how San Francisco rose to the epicenter of a gold rush. Barely escaping the 1906 earthquake, this book should’ve burned completely.

In 1951, not long after her breakthrough appearances in “All About Eve” and “The Asphalt Jungle,” Marilyn Monroe went to college: She enrolled in a pair of 10-week classes at UCLA’s adult-extension ...

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If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. Founded with Alyssa Reeder, the online book community aims to “highlight new voices” that aren’t typically on the bestseller’s list Steve ...

In Librarian: Tidy Up the Arcane Library!, there are over 3,000 books to organize and put away. If you’re new to the game, this can seem overwhelming. Even with the useful floor plan maps noting the ...

The San Diego central library. (File photo courtesy of the city of San Diego) Mayor Todd Gloria is proposing a nearly 5% cut to San Diego’s library system, a $3.4 million reduction that the head of ...

Many of these individual titles also appear on a 2024-25 report issued last October by PEN America, a separate group dedicated to free expression, which looked at book challenges and bans specifically ...

State of America’s Libraries Report reveals 4,235 unique titles challenged in 2025, marking the second-highest total on record CHICAGO – Today the American Library Association (ALA) releases its ...

As scholarly books remain vital outputs in the humanities, social sciences, and education, new approaches are required to capture their diverse impacts. This study explores the multidimensional ...