All my life, visits to the library were relatively transactional. I picked out books as a kid then, later, CDs as teenager ...

Both books are modest in size and deliberate in manner. Each represents a late-career narrowing rather than an expansion: a turn toward compression, attention and ethical restraint. They offer refined ...

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In my summer of sweet 16, the toughest challenge for me was trying to train a treacherous horse. As a riding instructor in a ...

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WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court in a free speech case on Monday opted not to hear an appeal by a group of residents of a rural Texas county of a judicial decision allowing local ...

A group of Llano County, Texas, residents asked the county's library commissioner to remove 17 books from circulation in 2021. The books covered topics including transgender issues and slavery. A ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to a Texas county’s removal of 17 books from its public libraries, leaving in place a lower court ruling that allowed the purge. The books ...

Kern County libraries can now bring titles that aren’t in its catalog to your doorstep through a new service with the Zip Books Service. If the Kern County ...

Rendering of the proposed natural water play feature looking west at the new Cedar Rapids Public Library — Busse Branch and city park. The park will be named Allsop Park in honor of a gift from the ...

Luke Mullins is a contributing writer at POLITICO Magazine, where he covers the people and institutions that control Washington’s levers of power. He has been a senior writer at Washingtonian magazine ...

It’s that time of the year when PBS News Hour invites two of our regular literary critics, Ann Patchett and Maureen Corrigan, to highlight their favorite books of the year. Jeffrey Brown picks up the ...