Graphic novel is a terrible term. It is never used with any kind of precision. The three graphic novels most non-nerds are likely to have encountered are Maus, Persepolis, and Fun Home, none of which ...

In June, the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) gave employees a presentation and tech demo called “AI-mazing Tech-venture” in which Google’s Gemini AI was presented as a tool ...

Hidden library in U.P. woods reveals innermost thoughts of visitorsFor decades, cabins in the Porcupine Mountains have offered campers a notebook in which to express themselves. Thousands of them have ...

Anti-censorship advocates have joined the book publisher Penguin Random House in condemning a Texas county that reclassified an account of European settlers’ colonization of Indigenous Americans as ...

already have a cure: fighting for the freedom to read. Stories allow us all to give meaning to the world around us and to envision something better.

Let me (re)introduce myself. I am Stephen Karlinchak, aka Conan the Librarian. I started working in the Post-Gazette’s morgue/information center/library way back 1990, before some of my co-workers ...

Decades of mismanagement and financial neglect have turned the New York State Museum, a trove of national treasures, into a dreary institution.

The biggest social platforms are fond of reminding us about how they facilitate connections and help us communicate around the world. They are a little bit like a digital third place. And, just as you ...

An investigation conducted by a data privacy group has revealed a vast tracking network that can follow the movements of a person’s phone, according to reports from 404 Media and Krebs on Security.

“When I went through and saw the vulgarity and profanity within this book, I was shocked. One book handed to me contained very graphic sexual content, derogatory terms, and detailed explanations of ...

A Texas county has mandated public libraries move a well-regarded children’s book documenting the mistreatment of Native Americans in New England — Colonization and the Wampanoag Story — from the “non ...

An amateur historian has discovered a long-lost short story by Bram Stoker, published just seven years before his legendary gothic novel Dracula. Brian Cleary stumbled upon the 134-year-old ghostly ...