News and views about books, authors, the life of the mind, the information age, and the American Library in Paris.

12 April 2010

New to our shelves

The Library has 120,000 books in its collection — and counting. Here are some intriguing new acquisitions, selected by our Collections Librarian, Simon Gallo: For the Soul […]
9 April 2010

Points of reference

If the American Library in Paris – or the internet – provides access to an online version of the information you seek, should the Library still […]
9 April 2010

Medicinal reading

The actress Emma Thompson, depressed after her first marriage broke up, chose Jane Austen for a therapist and ‘Sense and Sensibility’ for medicine.  And it worked.  […]
9 April 2010

Categories upon categories

Putting books in the right categories is not as easy as it used to be. “In our mashup-crazy, zombie-besotted culture, genre-bending is a trend that shows […]
Categories upon categories
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