Libraries are turning to social media to connect with their communities – with brilliant, often hilarious results. On the way, they’ve launched some unlikely stars.

I got into librarianship kind of like how a barfly gets into tending bar: you sit in the place for hours on end, day after day, appreciating the hell out of the person on the other side of the coun…

Edgar Allan Poe shaped horror, mystery, and detective fiction. These dark tales and haunting poems reveal his genius.

On 29 September 1947, the "biggest murder trial in history" began. Seventy years on, the chief prosecutor, Ben Ferencz, told the BBC how he fought to bring 22 killers to justice.

After public backlash, the Trump administration changed its tactics from ‘siege’ to ‘soft feet’. Now, ICE is everywhere

Although we can see many connections between our own lives and those of 17th-century English villagers—disputes among neighbors, domestic disharmony, wealth disparity—the times were very different …

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The best way to observe London, with all its charm and beauty, oddity and idiosyncrasy, is from the top of a bus, and mine was the 31—the only one that went to the World’s End and passed through so…

It began with a mistake. A glitch in the library’s database mismatched her name to an address from her past, an error that sent letter after letter falling through a door she’d rented years before.…

Photos from the American Library in Paris reveal how librarians brought books to US troops during World War I.

52 Australian women have lost their lives to violence this year, including three in recent weeks. How do we make sure we don’t get compassion fatigue?

On August 21, 1911, the Mona Lisa disappeared from the Louvre. This is the story of its unlikely thief, Vincenzo Peruggia.