World & Nation
Feb. 24, 2016
Dr.
Sept. 14, 2016
Books
I hesitate to admit this in polite company, but if I didn’t listen to books, I wouldn’t read at all.
Aug. 17, 2007
Emily Wheelock Reed, an Alabama librarian castigated by segregationists in 1959 for defending a children’s book about the love between a white rabbit and a black rabbit, died May 19 at a retirement community in Cockeysville, Md.
June 5, 2000
Several mainstream titles include sexual content, leaving booksellers in a quandary. Critics decry a moral decline.
Oct. 20, 2004
Entertainment & Arts
Will Smith reportedly called his relationship to Jada Pinkett Smith a ‘sloppy public experiment in unconditional love.’ He joined her onstage in Baltimore to promote her new memoir.
Oct. 19, 2023
Business
For I dipp’d into the future, Far as human eye could see; Saw the Vision of the World, And all the wonder that would be.
Nov. 9, 1992
Karl Shapiro, whose World War II poetry, written when he was a young soldier stationed in New Guinea, earned him instant literary recognition and a Pulitzer Prize in 1945, died Sunday in a New York City hospice.
May 18, 2000
Even now, in this riven country, after this whole entropically hideous year, most Americans still agree on at least one institution.
Nov. 10, 2016
California
Mayor Maureen O’Connor’s vision for a new “storybook” library may seem more like “The Jetsons” than “Snow White,” library science experts say.
Jan. 24, 1991