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Lunch Dances Breaks the Library’s Sacred Silence">Dancing with Frank O’Hara: How Lunch Dances Breaks the Library’s Sacred Silence

Brian Schaefer on Monica Bill Barnes and Robbie Saenz de Viteri’s Immersive Dance-Theater Performance

By Brian Schaefer | July 7, 2025

Five Takeaways from the Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne Papers

Five Takeaways from the Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne Papers

Evelyn McDonnell on Feminism, Family, and Feuds

By Evelyn McDonnell | April 7, 2025

You can now find Jhumpa Lahiri's first drafts at the New York Public Library.

You can now find Jhumpa Lahiri's first drafts at the New York Public Library.

By Brittany Allen | January 13, 2025

Libraries rule, cops drool: Today's the birthday of both NYC’s libraries and police.

Libraries rule, cops drool: Today's the birthday of both NYC’s libraries and police.

By James Folta | May 23, 2024

Here are the finalists for the NYPL's 2024 Young Lions Fiction Award.

Here are the finalists for the NYPL's 2024 Young Lions Fiction Award.

By James Folta | April 18, 2024

Party Girl, Budget Cuts, and the Future of Women’s Work"> The Library is Open: On <em

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Victoria Wiet on the 1995 Cult Classic, a Rallying Cry for Libraries

By Victoria Wiet | August 17, 2023

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Zain Khalid has won the 2023 Young Lions Award.

By Janet Manley | June 16, 2023

Here are the finalists for the 2023 Young Lions Fiction Award.

By Janet Manley | April 19, 2023

Famous writers will “Stand with Salman Rushdie” on the steps of the NYPL this Friday.

By Jonny Diamond | August 17, 2022

A Love Letter to (Perpetually Underfunded, Gloriously Democratic) Public Libraries

A Love Letter to (Perpetually Underfunded, Gloriously Democratic) Public Libraries

Michele Herman: “Libraries so clearly help to make good citizens, are so clearly a municipal force for the common good.”

By Michele Herman | July 21, 2022

This random list of things Lorraine Hansberry liked and disliked is delightful.

This random list of things Lorraine Hansberry liked and disliked is delightful.

By Vanessa Willoughby | May 19, 2021

Here is the 2021-22 class of Cullman Center Fellows.

Here is the 2021-22 class of Cullman Center Fellows.

By Walker Caplan | April 5, 2021

Read Nella Larsen's 1922 application to the NYPL's library school.

Read Nella Larsen's 1922 application to the NYPL's library school.

By Vanessa Willoughby | March 30, 2021

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Goodnight Moon.">Stave off the horrors of adulthood by visiting this exhibit inspired by Goodnight Moon.

By Vanessa Willoughby | March 22, 2021

These are the books New Yorkers checked out from the library most this year.

These are the books New Yorkers checked out from the library most this year.

By Dan Sheehan | December 22, 2020

Arthur Miller's impressive personal library is going to the New York Public Library.

Arthur Miller's impressive personal library is going to the New York Public Library.

By Aaron Robertson | October 28, 2020

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