culture
Bookshops and Libraries Used to Compete for Readers. Now They Need Each Other to Survive.
Japan's bookshop-library tie-ups look charming. They're really two dying institutions merging to split the cost of staying open.
culture
The Cozy-or-Horror Divide
Readers want warmth or dread — and nothing in between. What the disappearance of literary ambiguity reveals about how we're actually holding up.