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~ 2025 ~
"Inside of Herculaneum Scroll Seen For First Time Since 79 AD" - Fine Books & Collections, Feb. 5, 2025
"LA Wildfires Destroy Important Archives, Libraries, Historic Sites & Cultural Resources" - by Susan Halas, Rare Book Monthly, February 2025
"The California Historical Society Bows to Reality" - by Bruce E. McKinney, Rare Book Monthly, February 2025
"Lorne Michaels Archive Going to the University of Texas" - by Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, Jan. 15, 2025

~ 2024 ~
"Who Takes 60 Years to Write a Play? This Guy." by Dwight Garner, New York Times, Dec. 23, 2024
"Buy, Donate, Repeat: At 91, Leonard Lauder Has More to Give" - by Carol Vogel, New York Times, Dec. 18, 2024
"Notre-Dame Shines, and World Gets a Sneak Peek, on Macron’s Televised Tour" - by Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, Nov. 29, 2024
"The Land That Allowed Ken Burns to Raise the Dead" - by Rukmini Callimachi, New York Times, Nov. 27, 2024
"Library Technology: Report Reviews Digitizing Ancient and Fragile Materials" - by Susan Halas, Rare Book Monthly, November 2024
"Women in Rare Books: Belle da Costa Greene Exhibit at the Morgan Library Spotlights Life of Extraordinary Librarian" - by Susan Halas, Rare Book Monthly, November 2024
"It Started With a Family Tree. It Became ‘a Memorial to Everything.’" - by Aruna D'Souza, New York Times, Nov. 2, 2024
"The Coming of the ‘Messiah’: How Handel’s Masterpiece Was Born" - by John Adams, New York Times, Nov. 2, 2024
"Inside The Washington Post’s Decision to Stop Presidential Endorsements" - by Benjamin Mullin and Katie Robertson, New York Times, Oct. 27, 2024
"How a $600 million plan to save Downtown came together in a distinctly Pittsburgh way" - by Mark Belko and Madaleine Rubin, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Oct. 27, 2024
"Daughter of L.A. Times Owner Says Its Endorsement Decision Stemmed From Harris Stance on Gaza War" - by Soumya Karlamangla and Shawn Hubler, New York Times, Oct. 26, 2024
"The Morgan Honors Its ‘Personal Librarian’" - by Celia McGee, New York Times, Oct. 24, 2024
"Pittsburgh jazz legend Ahmad Jamal's archive acquired by Pitt" - by Jeremy Reynolds, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Oct. 4, 2024
"Oliver Sacks Archive Heads to the New York Public Library" - by Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, Oct. 4, 2024
"The Internet Archive Loses Legal Appeal. 500,000 Books Will No Longer Be Available Free to the Public" - by Michael Stillman, Rare Book Monthly, Oct. 2024
"Belle da Costa Greene: Rediscovering the Black Woman Who Made the Morgan Library" - by Jessica C. Linker, Fine Books & Collections, Fall 2024
"Is Malcolm Gladwell Out of Ideas?" - by Anand Giridharadas, New York Times, Sept. 29, 2024
"Westminster Abbey’s Brontë Plaque Had a Typo for 85 Years. It’s Fixed Now." - by Lynsey Chutel, New York Times, Sept. 27, 2024
"The Frick Collection Looks to London For Next Leader" - by Robin Pogrebin, New York Times, Sept. 19, 2024
"Robert Caro Reflects on ‘The Power Broker’ and Its Legacy at 50" - by Alexandra Alter, New York Times, Sept. 12, 2024
"Elton John Donates Photography Book Collection to Emory University" - by Michael Stillman, Rare Book Monthly, Sept. 2024

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