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Librarian leaves job after declining Melania Trump’s demand for a sword.

Librarian leaves job after declining Melania Trump’s demand for a sword.

By Jonny Diamond | October 2, 2025

This week's news in Venn diagrams.

This week's news in Venn diagrams.

By James Folta | September 26, 2025

Am I the Asshole For Working on My Novel During a Shift at the Library?

Am I the Asshole For Working on My Novel During a Shift at the Library?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | July 24, 2025

How librarians saved the day in World War II.

How librarians saved the day in World War II.

Move over, Moneypenny. The first spies were nerds.

By Brittany Allen | February 6, 2025

New Jersey fights back in the face of national book-banning.

New Jersey fights back in the face of national book-banning.

By Jonny Diamond | December 12, 2024

After Apalachee: How America’s Gun Violence Epidemic Affects Us All

After Apalachee: How America’s Gun Violence Epidemic Affects Us All

“I’m hoping against hope—but I won’t stop believing—I’ll even pray that, after Apalachee, everything will become different.”

By Deirdre Sugiuchi | September 24, 2024

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If he were alive today, would former librarian Mao Zedong be a men’s rights YouTube star?

By Jonny Diamond | April 25, 2023

The Reader is the Only Place That Matters: On the Metaphysical Space Within Literature

By Blair Austin | April 10, 2023

Kathryn Ma on Growing Up a Librarian’s Daughter

By Kathryn Ma | January 25, 2023

The 10 Biggest Literary Stories of the Year

The 10 Biggest Literary Stories of the Year

Bans, Blocked Deals, and More Bans

By Literary Hub | December 26, 2022

A Good Research Librarian Can Help You Find Information You Didn’t Even Know You Needed

A Good Research Librarian Can Help You Find Information You Didn’t Even Know You Needed

Sarah Shoemaker on Following Where the Research Leads

By Sarah Shoemaker | November 4, 2022

This Is Not a Drill: How to Go Into Lockdown in a School Library

This Is Not a Drill: How to Go Into Lockdown in a School Library

Jess deCourcy Hinds Describes an All Too Familiar Scene

By Jess deCourcy Hinds | October 26, 2022

Elizabeth McCracken Traces the Life of a First Edition... Her Own

Elizabeth McCracken Traces the Life of a First Edition... Her Own

On the Books We Can Part With, and Those We Can’t

By Elizabeth McCracken | October 4, 2022

A school librarian is suing the right-wing

A school librarian is suing the right-wing "activists" who defamed and harassed her.

By Dan Sheehan | August 16, 2022

How Fiction Helps Bring History’s Extraordinary Yet Forgotten Women To Life

How Fiction Helps Bring History’s Extraordinary Yet Forgotten Women To Life

Alexandra Lapierre on Immersing Herself in the Life of Belle da Costa Greene

By Alexandra Lapierre | June 30, 2022

An Oklahoma lawmaker just compared librarians to cockroaches. It’s as bad as it sounds.

An Oklahoma lawmaker just compared librarians to cockroaches. It’s as bad as it sounds.

By Walker Caplan | March 23, 2022

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