In his 1931 essay “Unpacking My Library,” the German-Jewish author Walter Benjamin wove a spiritual aura around his books as he prepared to shelve them in a new home. He ruminated about “the spring ...

I have spent a considerable portion of my life handling books. I’ve read them, as a young child, an older student, and a professor of English; I’ve bound them, as a worker in a library to help pay my ...

For the love of books (and all the other wonderful things you can find at the library), Spokane Public Library invites you to get online and share your story of how local libraries have impacted your ...

I don’t possess one of those personal libraries consisting of 20,000 volumes that writers of past generations could boast of by their early thirties. I live in a 68 square-metre apartment and that ...

The Los Angeles Times Book Club is reading “The Library Book,” the Susan Orlean bestseller about the 1986 L.A. Library fire. We invited readers to share their library stories. I was the Community ...