A dynamic gathering of educators, authors, media practitioners, and advocates came together on March 3, 2026, at JRich ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. The novelist Henry Miller once observed that “a book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you.” If ...

In April of 2023, when I was fresh out of a Ph.D. program in philosophy, I was hired as the nonfiction critic at the newly revived books section of the Washington Post. The shock to my system was ...

When life gets really hectic, sitting quietly with a book can feel like an impossible luxury. And when does a smartphone-mediated world feel less than hectic? Any shred of free time is too easy to ...

The New Deal, George Selgin suggests, did not work the way most historians claim. This economist’s eye-opening analysis shows that the increased government centralization of the 1930s rarely resulted ...

The Brooklyn Public Library on Friday received a $200,000 grant from the Heckscher Foundation for Children and $180,000 from Assemblymember Robert Carroll to expand the library system's literacy ...

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The Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) welcomed Assembly Member Robert Carroll (D/WF-Brooklyn) on Nov. 12 for story time with 1st graders from P.S. 321 at the Park Slope Library on 6th Avenue. Carroll was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Veronica Guzman works with her third-grade son, Gabriel, on his homework, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025. Guzman's son attends Browning ...