- Mujib Mashal reports on the remarkable story of a homegrown library in Panjwai, Afghanistan. (The New York Times) Though I like the story of a library popping up in one of the most dangerous places in the world, this paragraph broke my heart:
- “But the interest of a couple of female readers, who approached women in the Haidary family about their interest in the books, has caused a small dilemma in a society that frowns upon even sharing the names of women in public: How can the library keep track of who took the books out if it cannot write the women’s names?” —Mashal
- Katy Simpson Smith argues that fiction is necessary to understand the worst parts of our own history, but that authors have to be really careful about it. (LitHub)
- Allan Hall reports that Heinrich Himmler’s occult library has been found. (Daily Mail)
- Amelia Dimoldenberg asked a bunch of people why they go to the library. Hopefully, stories like this will give folks who trumpet about the obsolescence of libraries pause. (Vice)
