The last half decade has seen Egypt’s government overthrown twice, punctuated by mob violence and periodic mass killings of demonstrators. Since the June 2014 election of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi,… Read more »

While George Clooney’s recent film The Monuments Men hasn’t received the greatest reviews, it has brought attention to the work that the officers for the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives… Read more »

If you couldn’t get rid of your old print encyclopedia any other way, would you burn it? That’s what author and philosopher Julian Baggini did recently in a field in… Read more »

As we wrote here on January 29th, there has been much concern in recent days about the status of many thousands of priceless manuscripts in the Malian city of Timbuktu.… Read more »

Freedom was founded in 1886 by volunteers including Peter Kropotkin and Charlotte Wilson … Read more »

In addition to destroying the city’s many Sufi shrines, militants first slept in, and then put fire to, an older library… Read more »

This week, the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival honors the most creative work in the ad industry, and one of the biggest winners is a campaign to save a small… 1 / Read more »

The veneration of books has always laid traps for the reckless and unwary, and it has frequently mutated into perversity. Many young lovers of books, for instance, have awakened to… Read more »

Al Jazeera English covered the bombing last week of the offices of the satirical French weekly magazine, Charlie Hebdo. Fingers are pointing to Islamic radicals, since the paper recently published… Read more »

“U.S. forces stationed in a remote area of Afghanistan recently received about 20 copies of Bill O’Reilly’s book Pinheads and Patriots,” notes a Politico report. “Their orders upon receiving the… Read more »