Our editors and critics choose the most captivating, notable, brilliant, surprising, absorbing, weird, thought-provoking, and ...

When it seemed central Europe would succumb to the terrors of Bolshevism, Ludwig von Mises wrote his classic book, Socialism, ...

Different facilities approach book bans in their own way to uphold certain standards and protocols when addressing these concerns. Here’s what happens and what to know if a book ...

A powerful symbolic image in Kim Snyder’s The Librarians documentary, which has received its premiere at Sundance this year, ...

A powerful symbolic image in Kim Snyder’s The Librarians documentary, which has received its premiere at Sundance this year, is a librarian who, at the start of the film, stays in the shadows of ...

Librarians unite to combat book banning, defending intellectual freedom on democracy’s frontlines amid unprecedented ...

Kim A. Snyder Logline: As an unprecedented wave of book banning is sparked in Texas, Florida, and beyond, librarians who find ...

Schools have long been a battleground over history, culture and equality. Today, these themes are colliding, once again.

Somewhere Toward Freedom” tells the story of Sherman’s March to the Sea from the perspective of the formerly enslaved.

In the literary world, this year is shaping up to be a good one for fans of cultural criticism: There are new books about Better Call Saul and biographies of James Gandolfini and Lorne Michaels on ...

In her 2018 article for the New York Times, “Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web,” Bari Weiss described the intellectual dark web as “a collection of iconoclastic thinkers ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. A thriller, a dystopia, a Gothic novel about a family curse: Genre lovers have options in this week’s recommended books ...