library
A 21st-century Holden Caulfield: The Book of Form and Emptiness, by Ruth Ozecki, reviewed
The world Ruth Ozeki creates in The Book of Form & Emptiness resembles one of the snow globes that pop…
From half a shelf to a library: my life in books
‘Yes, I will have a coffee,’ said the van driver. He’d driven down to the south of France from Devon.…
The joy of rummaging through Gladstone’s annotated books
Gladstone’s Library began as that most English of things: a great man’s visionary idea. William Gladstone, at the age of…
John Dee thought he could talk to angels using medieval computer technology
John Dee liked to talk to spirits but he was no loony witch, says Christopher Howse
Meet the librarians – and book borrowers – of the Calais Jungle
In the middle of the Calais migrant camp, there is a book-filled haven of peace