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Test Your Knowledge of History’s Most Famous Libraries

Try this short quiz on five of the globe’s renowned repositories of human learning.

6 hours ago

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Test Your Knowledge of History’s Most Famous Libraries

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Rare Books on Sex Have Spiced Things Up at a Library Franklin Founded

The Library Company of Philadelphia, created in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin, has received a gift of 1,500 volumes about sexuality dating back to the 17th century.

9 hours ago

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Rare Books on Sex Have Spiced Things Up at a Library Franklin Founded

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Book Review: ‘The Housewives Underground,’ by Kaitlyn Tiffany

In “The Housewives Underground,” the Atlantic writer Kaitlyn Tiffany salutes a loose network of skeptics who questioned the findings of the Warren Report.

14 hours ago

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Book Review: ‘The Housewives Underground,’ by Kaitlyn Tiffany

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Book Review: “Nebraska,” by Monica Datta

Monica Datta’s “Nebraska” is a maximalist, continent-spanning story of a mother killing her youngest child, as relayed by a highly idiosyncratic psychoanalyst.

14 hours ago

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Book Review: “Nebraska,” by Monica Datta

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Book Review: ‘The Emergency Playbook,’ by Amy Edelman and Chris Begley

“The Emergency Playbook” is a disaster preparation guide that emphasizes community rather than lone-hero fantasies.

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Book Review: ‘The Emergency Playbook,’ by Amy Edelman and Chris Begley

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‘There Was Love, and Then There Was Suffering’: A Q&A With Christian Wiman

“The minute you are convinced that you have grasped something true about God, it dissolves in you.”

2 days ago

NYT Books and Literature

‘There Was Love, and Then There Was Suffering’: A Q&A With Christian Wiman