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Classic films, old bars and 19th century Romantic paintings are all fodder for Guerrero. Plus, Sanford Biggers at CAAM and Frank Gehry's latest in our weekly arts newsletter.

A glowing shrine to books The children’s library on the lower ground level at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library in New York. A mighty wall of books impresses in the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, a transformed branch that bursts with new services and technology. Max Touhey via The New York Times. by James S. Russell (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- Muddling along for four decades in a nondescript former department store, the Mid-Manhattan Library, at Fifth Avenue and 40th Street in New York C...

Housing Is a Social Good from Boston Review. The American Jobs Plan mirrors past efforts at affordable housing that contributed to our problems and failed Black Americans. We need to take housing out of the private market.

Unlike other areas of New York, there is no shortage of park space or entertainment venues in the neighborhood around Little Island.

In his May 25 keynote at the U.S. Book Shows Libraries Are Essential Program sociologist Eric Klinenberg, author of the bestselling book Palaces for the People, said libraries are the best exemplars of our collective life and that strong libraries will be key to the nations recovery after a historically challenging year.

New York is Dead. Long live New York. SECTIONS Last Updated: May 15, 2021, 10:44 PM IST Share Synopsis “It’s completely dead,” self-help author and provocateur James Altucher said in his blog essay “New York Is Dead Forever … Here’s Why” that was endlessly dissected, and mocked, last summer. Reuters “Businesses are remote and they aren’t returning to the office,” he wrote. “And it’s a death spiral.” “It’s a ghost town,” former President Donald Trump said of New Y...

Libraries Are Essential Opening Remarks, with Cohosts Andrew Richard Albanese and Sari Feldman PW senior writer Andrew Richard Albanese leads the magazine’s library coverage. Albanese has covered the publishing and information technology fields for more than 21 years and is a former associate editor of American history at Oxford University Press, a former editor at Library Journal, and author of The Battle of $9.99: How Apple, Amazon and the Big Six Publishers Changed the E-book Business O...

Image Libraries across the United States closed because of the coronavirus, moving as many activities and services online as they could.Credit...Lyndon French for The New York Times To the Editor: In “Infrastructure Isn’t Really About Roads. It’s About the Society We Want” (Opinion guest essay, nytimes.com, April 26), Eric Klinenberg argues that strong public infrastructure — places where communities can gather, learn from one another and grow after over a year of isolation — is the...

Mr. Appelbaum is a member of the editorial board. In June 1982, President Ronald Reagan delivered a fire-eating speech before the British House of Commons that is best remembered for his prediction that democratic nations would triumph and communism would end up on “the ash heap of history.” The speech also helped to popularize a relatively new English word: infrastructure. Mr. Reagan didn’t predict victory by default. He said the United States would pursue the end of communism b...

Yves here. Synchronicity strikes! Lambert and I were discussing some of the extreme views expressed in comments yesterday. He attributed it to hysteria in the zeitgeist finally getting to the site. And now we have a theory as to why! It’s a neoliberal infestation. By Marc Schuilenburg, assistant professor at VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Originally published at openDemocracy In 1980, hysteria died. That was the year it was removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Ment...