It’s a summer day and it's too hot to play outside. Your child is glued to a screen, content to spend their day with air-conditioning and digital media. Sound familiar? It’s the time of year when many ...

Ask me what I’m reading at any given moment and I’ll probably rattle off at least three titles, not to mention comics and the occasional textbook I may also be chipping away at in the background.

Riding a wave of growing enthusiasm for reading, many bookstores and libraries have expanded their programming to let grown-ups in on the literary fun. By Anna Diamond Anna Diamond grew up ...

Mr. Bannon is the chief librarian at the New York Public Library, where he is also director of branch libraries and education. Nov. 23, 2025 As a librarian, I get a lot of questions. One I am hearing ...