Justice
What If the Last Bookstore Closes?
A fight to keep a Barnes & Noble alive in the Bronx points to the necessity of real bookstores—and to the struggle for the borough to get one in the first place.
You’ve heard of food deserts. What about book deserts?
The Bronx is home to 1.4 million people, nearly as many as the city of Phoenix. But for a few days there, it looked like it was going to lose its only general-interest bookstore, a Barnes & Noble in an outdoor mall.