Alice Kaplan’s memoir of her embrace of the French language, “French Lessons,” is a beloved classic. She has continued to write books of history that explore […]

A great open house at the Library Saturday, with lots of newcomers looking around (and joining!), the children’s department alive with a book group and much […]

“One doesn’t have to be a psycholinguist to obsess over pronouns,” writes Jessica Love in the spring issue of The American Scholar. But it surely helps. […]

Two or three times a year the Library opens its doors to give those who don’t know us already a chance to look around and kick […]