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Canada Lee: Actor, Trailblazer, Activist
Publicity photograph of Canada Lee. Image ID: 5105183In celebration of our exhibition, The 75th Anniversary of the American Negro Theatre, Canada Lee, who hosted the groundbreaking New World A-Coming...
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NYPL's Top 10 Summer Reads... And What You Should Read Next
Voting with their library cards, New Yorkers have picked out the most popular summer reads—the 10 books most frequently checked out from the New York Public Library between June 1 and August 31. This...
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The Long and the Short of It
As the anniversary of Leo Tolstoy's death approches, one thing comes to mind when we think of the preeminent Russian novelist: War and Peaceand giant doorstopper novels.We love 1000+-page books here at...
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Hubble and the Sublime: The Fear of the Infinite
Twenty-five years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit around the earth. In that time, it has sent back more than a million images, many startling, like the “Pillars of Creation” in...
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Bicycle Books for Beginners
Learning to ride a bike is a childhood rite of passage. Here a few titles to encourage kids through the many falls it takes to those reach those glorious, autonomous loops around the block or the...
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Booktalking "The Good, the Bad and the Beagle" by Catherine Lloyd Burns
Cadbury, the lemon beagle at the Paws and Claws Pet Store, beckons to Veronica Morgan. She loves him a lot, and she visits him often at the store. Sometimes, with trepidation, she fears that another...
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Novedades de Septiembre 2015: ¡Celebrando la Herencia Hispana con Nuevas...
El mes de la Herencia Hispana se celebra del 15 de septiembre al 15 de octubre. El lema de este año es “Honrando nuestra Herencia. Construyendo Nuestro Futuro” (Hispanic Heritage Month). Para celebrar,...
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The Palimpsest of Justice: Law, Narrative, and the Romantic Self
A guest post by Mark Schoenfield, Department of English, Vanderbilt University.Though it makes us blush, we are pleased to present Mark Schoenfield's blog on his time here this summer as one of the...
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Booktalking "I'm No Monster" by Stefanie Marsh and Bojan Pancevski
The 1980s in Austria was a very patriarchal time and place; daughters were accustomed to facing authoritarianism, if not wanton violence, from the male family heads. In addition, it seems that everyone...
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Job and Employment Links for the Week of September 13
H&R Block will present a recruitment on Tuesday, September 15, 2015, 11 am - 2 pm, for Tax Preparer (10 Seasonal openings), at NYC Workforce 1 Career Center, 21 West 125 Street, 6th Floor, New...
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Yiddish Theater Research: A Quick Online Guide
Joseph Buloff. Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library. Image ID: 115334General WorksDigital Yiddish Theatre ProjectA research consortium and website applying digital humanities tools and...
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Не хлебом единым: питайтесь разнообразнее и лучше! Recent Russian Cookbooks
В библиотеку Мid-Manhattanпоступило большое количество новых кулинарных книг. Предлагаем нашим читателям большой ассортимент трудов об отечественной и зарубежной кулинарии.Кулинарная книга Петровича :...
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Book Notes from the Underground: I've Got Your Back Edition
I will admit from the very start that this post will be superficial. I will not be discussing "beautiful language" or "intricate plotting structures" or "compelling characters." Here I am only...
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Back to (a Different Kind of) School
As teens return to the school-year grind, they may find comfort in knowing it’s a shared experience—even with their counterparts in far-off fantasy worlds.Check out five YA back-to-school stories with...
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Booktalking "The Profiler: My Life Hunting Serial Killers and Psychopaths" by...
Pat Brown's journey as a criminal profiler began when she agreed to rent a room to a friend's beau as a favor. Walt was odd, to say the least. He seemed to be a child caught in the body of a young man....
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Autumn Essays
Image ID: 1253792Fall is a great time for observation and refection. In that spirit, NYPL staff members selected their favorite essays to share with you. Settle in and watch the leaves change and we...
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The Cooper Union's Retraining Program for Immigrant Engineers
The Cooper Union's Retraining Program for Immigrant Engineers provides admitted participants the opportunity to update their skills and work in their chosen fields by offering them professional courses...
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New York Times Read Alikes: September 20, 2015
An exciting new release, the fourth novel in the Millennium series, hits number one this week. If you finish it in one sitting and want more, here are some readalikes to get you through the rest of the...
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Podcast #78: John Lithgow on Shakespeare and Bedtime Stories
Subscribe on iTunes.A winner of five Emmys and two Golden Globes, John Lithgow is one of America's most accomplished actors. He's also the author of the memoir Drama: An Actor’s Education. For this...
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Meet the Artist: Tony Jannetti
We're really "branching" out into new forms of art at Mulberry Street Library with our latest exhibition by neighborhood artist Tony Jannetti. Jannetti's exhibit, called "The Not-Seen Ubiquitous -...
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