With its striking spiral architecture, the library was made for both bibliophiles and Instagram.

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Yes, your mind really is playing tricks on you. Check out these optical illusions and brain puzzles to learn how and why.
Authors have stopped turning to the natural world for size comparisons and started referring to sports.
1. It's one of three Atwood adaptations hitting the small screen this year.
They don't wear white gloves, and they're not sorry.
Accused by his countrymen of collaborating with the Nazis, the once-beloved British author fled in 1947 and never looked back.
The works are in the public domain because of a rarely used provision of U.S. copyright law.
The real-life tale of how the beloved children's book character came to be rivals any movie.
Since its release in 1930, 'As I Lay Dying' has become regarded as an American classic—and a bit of an endurance test for some readers.
Attention ladies: The Iceman is willing to spring for a fancy dinner, but not at one of those places "where the menu is so fancy I don't know what I'm ordering."
These 15 books were the <em>Harry Potter</em>s of their time.
Kurt Vonnegut, in particular, loved to give fans a little extra artistic flourish with his signature.
Curiouser and curiouser.
Zora Neale Hurston's 1937 novel was met with a poor critical reception. Decades later, critics finally understood what Hurston had accomplished.
More than 300 of the public television celebrity's signature landscape paintings have been collected into a coffee table book.
“Write drunk, edit sober” may sound like a sage piece of advice, but it didn't come from F. Scott Fitzgerald.
In addition to being one of the world's most successful and prolific writers, Stephen King is also the toast of Hollywood with a seemingly never-ending stream of adaptations being made of his work.
If you read Harper Lee's novel in school, it wasn't entirely because of the book's stellar literary value (though it has that, too).
Roboticists are working hard to engineer the next Picasso.