Alt: Switch (a pale woman with short very blond hair) from The Matrix looking up and saying "Not like this. Not like this."

We asked dozens of them about America’s libraries — what they provide, what they need to survive. Here’s what they told us.

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The first fall runs of chinook salmon since the project in California and Oregon was completed have surpassed researchers’ expectations.

A New York transplant surgeon’s experience waiting for a heart transplant laid bare the challenges of a system he had spent decades trying to fix.

Take it out in the rain sometimes.

The winners of this year’s Nikon Small World in Motion competition showcase the wiggly, feathery, undulating beauty of invisible life.

Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil.

I've been writing new poetry and sending it to literary journals, who cheerfully send me rejection letters in turn. Sometimes I feel like we're caught in a codependent relationship. Some of the letter...

When Republicans tried to repeal a law that voters passed banning gerrymandering, they found an opposition that flew in the face of Utah women’s “tradwives” imagery.

I know this hasn’t been an easy year. I know this year has often felt like walking a balance beam that mysteriously got narrower when we weren’t looking. Or maybe even like walking a balance beam w…