The Library at Night

A celebration of reading, of libraries, and of the mysterious human desire to give order to the universe

Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth—century home near the Loire, in France, Alberto Manguel, the acclaimed writer on books and reading, has taken up the subject of libraries. “Libraries,” he says, “have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I’ve been seduced by their labyrinthine logic.” In this personal, deliberately uns...