AI companies keep promising world-changing futures while struggling with very present-tense problems like accuracy, labor, energy use, and trust. Policy researcher Caroline De Cock joins Glyn Moody to…
The latest issue of our newsletter is already available online: Project Gutenberg News - June 2026 Contents American Library Association celebrates 150 years Bloomsday Herman Melville’s Home Service C…
❤️ Love the Wayback Machine? Some publishers and news organizations are blocking it from archiving journalism—cutting off access to the public record and future accountability. Want to tell them to sto…
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Funny and full of sex: why you should read Proust’s In Search of Lost Time Readers strike an encouraging note for those sceptical of the joys of Proust, saying it has plenty to make it worth perserver…
🧵1/3 What if the history of games, films, and culture disappears not because it is lost… but because no one is allowed to keep it? 🎮⚠️ Jordan Mechner, creator of Prince of Persia & pioneering video gam…
🧵 1/3 As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, it's worth asking: What does democracy require of us when it comes to preserving public knowledge? Join us for THE FIGHT FOR THE PUBLIC REC…
Fight for the Future is calling out publishers and news organizations that are blocking the Wayback Machine from preserving journalism meant to be part of the permanent public record. Join the effort:…
10 Victorian Literary Masterpieces by Thomas Hardy You Need to Read Discover the works of Thomas Hardy, a Victorian writer who captured the intricacies of families and relationships within his texts t…
Who Wrote the First Encyclopedia? In the 18th century, the Encyclopedia was one of the most important projects aimed at collecting works from diverse scientific disciplines in arts, sciences, and phil…
🧵 Some publishers and news organizations are blocking the Wayback Machine from archiving their journalism, cutting off access to the public record. 📣 If you rely on the Wayback Machine to preserve new…
Can Bad People Write Good Books? Can we still appreciate great novels when we know their author behaved despicably? By Gina Dalfonzo https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/literature/can-bad-people-…
“Plaything of the Gods”: Photographs of Pushball (early 1900s) The scene is almost surreal: boys in collared shirts chasing a giant ball across a field. In one picture, the ball fills a horse-drawn ca…
Victor Hugo’s Fight to Free France Through Literature Today best known for his epic novel Les Miserables (1862), Victor Hugo (1802–1885) used literature to speak out about social issues and highlight …
@gairdeachas great news Casey, thanks for sharing!
‘I am very serious about being silly’: children’s illustrators on the art of storytelling From The Twits to The Gruffalo and an angry bear in search of his hat… Quentin Blake, Cressida Cowell, Axel Sh…
10 Paintings by Leonardo da Vinci You Should Know Each surviving painting by Leonardo da Vinci contains complex symbolism and almost always an equally complex controversy. by Anastasiia Kirpalov (from…
The Private Worlds of Charlotte Brontë and Octavia E. Butler Behind The Huntington Library’s glass cases, the layers of motherhood, career, friendship, family, and loss are revealed in personal object…
Flickering Enlightenment Attacked by the Left and Right, the Enlightenment can only be saved through use of its greatest legacy: permanent critique by Eliane Glaser https://aeon.co/essays/lets-save-th…
What it is like to read Proust - an experiment by Henry Oliver https://www.commonreader.co.uk/p/what-it-is-like-to-read-proust Books by Marcel Proust at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/987…
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