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For sale: a home with a bookish past.

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You Could Own F. Scott Fitzgerald’s House

Live in the Victorian rowhouse where a career was born

America, Maurizio Cattelan, gold, 2016

You’ll Want to Sit on Guggenheim’s Latest Piece, an 18-Karat Golden Toilet

Maurizio Cattelan returns from retirement with this pretentious potty

No matter how you slice it, the most current Census Bureau income report is filled with juicy stats.

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Five Things to Know About the Most Recent Census Income Report

Income’s up, but the picture is more complicated than that

A rendering of the 10-ton block of ice.

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Watch a 10-Ton Ice Cube Melt on a Seattle Square

It’s a different kind of block party

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Four Finds from University of Kansas’ Collection of Radical Zines

The university’s Solidarity! Radical Library boasts a collection of almost 1,000 alternative papers

"Shotgun Seamstress"

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The New York Public Library’s Radical Zine Collection Is Now on Display

Check out pamphlets from people like Noam Chomsky and Mumia Abu-Jamal

Kayak may be the best way to explore the climate change memorial of the future.

Anthropocene

What Will the Memorials of the Future Look Like?

From underwater trees to mechanical parrots, the memorials of tomorrow don’t look much like the ones that exist today

Magritte apparently recycled a lost painting to create The Human Condition.

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Curators Are One Piece Closer to Solving the Mystery of Magritte’s Missing Painting

The Enchanted Pose is coming back from the dead—one painted-over quarter at a time

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Here’s How the Oxford English Dictionary Chooses New Words

“YOLO,” “uptalk” and “gender-fluid” have all made the cut

Pew Research Shows Public Libraries Remain Vital to Communities

The latest poll shows that the majority of Americans think libraries have the resources they need

"World Trade Center as a Cloud"
Christopher Saucedo

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Inside the 9/11 Museum’s First Art Show

The exhibit marks the 15th anniversary of the attacks

The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries

Even Napoleon Had an Unpublished Manuscript, and Now It’s up for Auction

His handwritten novella captures his feelings toward love at age 26

"Everything is awesome," Lego executives might as well be singing.

North America Is Crazy For Lego Toys and the Manufacturer Can’t Keep Up

The bricks keep kids and adults coming back for more

Celebrate 50 Years of International Literacy Day With the British Library

Butterflies, rabbits and Shakespeare: there’s something for everybody

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Why Syrian Bakers Are Still Making Bread in Spite of the Civil War

Bakers are going to great lengths to preserve a little bit of normalcy

The Chandos portrait is the only-known painting of Shakespeare made during his lifetime.

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Cleaning This Portrait Could Change the Way Historians See Shakespeare

The only portrait of the Bard made while he was alive might be getting touch-ups

This shopping bag was designed by the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union and handed out to shoppers in front of department stores around New York in 1964.

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Fuel Your Design Obsession With 200,000 Newly Digitized Artifacts

Explore 30 centuries of design at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum without leaving your computer

The design of the 2016 Brussels Flower Carpet was based off of Japanese patterns.

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Don’t Miss These Dazzling, Iconic Flower Festivals

No matter the time of year, it’s always time for a flower festival

It's alive!

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One in Four Americans Didn’t Read a Book Last Year

But don’t mourn the death of the printed word just yet

If your book has a stamp like this, it's probably way overdue.

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Alabama Library Plans to Enforce Strict Overdue Book Ordinance

You could face a fine or even spend a night in jail for keeping books too long

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