Posts by Tracy O'Neill

During the week, it can be tough to stay on top of everything. On Fridays, though, we suggest kicking back to catch up on all the delightful literary reading the internet has to offer.

Siddhartha Mukherjee is the author of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer and, most recently, The Gene: An Intimate History.

During the week, it can be tough to stay on top of everything. On Fridays, though, we suggest kicking back to catch up on all the delightful literary reading the internet has to offer.

Laurie Anderson is one of the great pioneers of American art, combining and redefining various media, including film, music, spoken word, and performance art.

Like any game, grammar operates based off of rules learned in action. It isn't just for the dogmatic to dictate with elbow-patched zeal. In that spirit, we're taking a deep dive into grammar books.

In 2010 Derek Walcott delivered the Robert B. Silvers lecture, focusing on the relationship between Ernest Hemingway and the Caribbean.

For this week's episode of the New York Public Library Podcast, we're proud to present John Lithgow and James Shapiro discussing Guy Fawkes, the Gunpowder Plot, and Getting Hooked on Shakespeare.

What works and doesn't to preserve endangered languages.

Like many of his previous works, Dyer's latest book White Sands is a book that refuses simple categories. The author discussed his sense that books ought not be understood through a crude matrix of genre.

The 1939-1940 World's Fair in New York City was billed as an exhibition that showcased the "Dawn of a New Day." As such, there was plenty of technological innovation on display, but perhaps some of the most memorable images of the event are those featuring food. Check out some of the wackiest food photos from the New York Public Library Digital Collections for some delicious laughs.

Bruce Davidson's photography has captured American life for over fifty years, from the Civil Rights Movement to life in Harlem during the 1990s. One of his greatest fans, actor Matt Dillon, joined Davidson for a recent event at the Library. For this week's episode of the New York Public Library, we're proud to present Davidson and Dillon discussing New York, subverted expectations, and photographs that have remained influential.

An executive producer, actress, and model, Lakshmi added "memoirist" to her resume this year with the publication of Love, Loss and What We Ate.

From short erotic fiction to a trans picture book and from LGBT graphic novels to a deeply reported book on Lawrence v. Texas, we're looking back at the incredible Lammy winners of the last ten years.

In the United States, black men make up six percent of the population but are nearly forty percent of those murdered. How can this happen? In Jill Leovy's Ghettoside, she investigates.

Muhammad Ali will be remembered as one of the most glorious heavyweight boxers and one of the most influential men in American history.

Recently, Google announced that its artificial intelligence was composing poetry after reading thousands of romance novels. Some found it nonsensical. Others saw a continuity between Google's verse and chance operations poetry, a technique traced back to the Dada Movement. Can you tell the difference between the poetry of machines and humans? Take our quiz to see if you can identify whether the following poetry excerpts come from Google AI or Dada 

Artist Maya Lin's work is big, from large-scale environmental installments to memorials to architectural projects. Her monograph Maya Lin: Topologies was published by Rizzoli in 2015.

When you have serious story-time nostalgia, sometimes the best bet to satisfy that craving is an audiobook. Buckle up, and enjoy the ride with a few of our favorite audiobooks.

For this week's New York Public Library Podcast, we're proud to present Åsne Seierstad—finalist for the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism—discussing how she found her subject, the meaning of her title, and what Breivik thought he had in common with authors.