The Plashing Vole

So this was in the local rag recently: The 'anger', it turns out, is entirely felt by one man who feels so strongly about it t...

Our university library is adopting the policy of only buying electronic versions of books when it can. I can see the attractions: instant ac...

OK, I'm not very good at erotica, but if libraries and porn go together in your filthy minds, this article in the Paris Review  should ...

…and Mark's present: he has 15,000+ books and his ceilings collapsed quite some time ago. This is actually an art installation for V...

In a trenchant defence of the public moral and intellectual value of libraries (and not just as book warehouses), Alan Bennett writes this:...

A friend of mine gave me an intriguing book recently, More Essays of Today, edited by F. H. Pritchard and published in 1928. I added it to t...

I read an interesting piece about what our personal libraries say about us. It shouldn't be a surprise that collections indicate a cu...

Alan Moore, author of V for Vendetta , Watchmen and a host of other works of subcultural genius, loves libraries. Perhaps the Tories hate t...

One of the most depressing features about the Tory/Lib Dem government is it's kneejerk response to economic problems: attack the poor. W...