I have always divided my reading into two general categories: day books and night books. Day books are something that require ...

As our communities wrestle with loneliness, pleasure reading and the libraries that sustain it offers an affordable path to ...

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 ...

Readers respond to a librarian who wrote that listening to a book qualifies as reading. To the Editor: Re “Yes, Listening to a Book Counts as Reading,” by Brian Bannon (Opinion guest essay, Nov. 23): ...

Kabul (Pajhwok): With increasing daily commitments, reading books has become a growing challenge in society. In this context, the “Bulbul” application, offering hundreds of audiobooks in Dari and ...