Culture
DECEMBER 13, 2019Librairie des Colonnes
Tangier, Morocco
Tangier was the home of many
famed writers of the ’50s and ’60s,
and Librairie des Colonnes was
a regular haunt of Paul Bowles,
William S. Burroughs, Tennessee
Williams, Truman Capote, and
others. The bookstore still mostly
features titles in French but it also
houses Spanish, English, and,
increasingly, more Arabic works,
and even publishes its own books.Word on the Water
London, England
This ʀoating bookstore in the
Regents Canal is known as “The
London Bookbarge.” Formerly
mobile, it has now found a
permanent home where visitors
can browse year round, warm
up by a wood-burning ɿre in
the winter and enjoy music and
poetry performances on the
rooftop stage in the summer.Housing Works
Bookstore Cafe & Bar
New York, New York
Housing Works Bookstore is one
of the most quintessentially New
York bookshops, second only to the
Strand. Part of a non-proɿt chain
donating its proceeds to combat
AIDS and homelessness, the spiral
staircases leading to a second ʀoor
balcony of books gives the feeling
of an old-school library in the heart
of New York’s chic SoHo district.
El Ateneo Grand Splendid
Buenos Aires, Argentina
This 1919 theater-turned-
cinema-turned-bookstore
epitomizes the connection
between the performing
arts and books. It retains the
frescoed ceiling, ornate trim,
and velvet curtains of the
former theater, and books line
the walls, including where the
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