Brooklyn Library

05/12/2016

In the years after World War II, the CIA made use of jazz musicians, abstract expressionist painters, and experimental writers to promote avant-garde American culture as a Cold War weapon. At the time, downward cultural comparisons with Soviet art were highly credible.

05/09/2016

Wouldn't this be great to have? Take the survey and let the City know how you feel about it!

Outdoor rooms! What do you think of the idea of having a shipping container wall at North Waterfront Park? Check out the plans and share your thoughts with us here http://svy.mk/1Njrhtr

04/25/2016

Franz Kafka — he wrote that story about the guy who turns into a bug, and lot of stuff about complex and implacable bureaucracy, right? What more do you need to know?

04/24/2016

You could pay $118 on Amazon for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's catalog The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry.

04/23/2016

Just a few short years ago, the world of digital scholarly texts was in its primordial stages, and it is still the case that most online editions are simply basic HTML or scanned images from more or less arbitrarily chosen print editions.

04/23/2016

04/14/2016

Championed by 21 writers you have, including Jonathan Franzen, Zadie Smith, Junot Díaz, and more.

04/12/2016

THE STRANGER by Albert Camus was first published in English by Alfred A. Knopf 70 years ago on this day in 1946.

"Throughout the whole absurd life I'd lived, a dark wind had been rising toward me from somewhere deep in my future, across years that were still to come, and as it passed, this wind leveled whatever was offered to me at the time, in years no more real than the ones I was living."
--from THE STRANGER

Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd."

04/12/2016

How to market a book like Lo**ta, which, upon its publication in 1955, promptly found itself banned in France, Britain, New Zealand, Argentina and other countries? Carefully. At least at first.

04/11/2016

Peder Zane, the book editor of the Raleigh News & Observer, asked 125 top writers to name their favorite book. The lists were all compiled in an edited collection, The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books, and then prefaced by one uber list, “The Top Top Ten.

04/10/2016