Bookish Diversions: The Future Library

100-Year Publishing Project, 55-Year Book Club, C.S. Lewis, Book Bans, More

Reflection the Long Room Trinity College Dublin. Image: Jana Kowalewicz

¶ You’re free to visit the Future Library in Oslo, Norway, but you can’t read any books. Not yet, at least. Project creators have solicited books from authors that will not publish for a century. While the books are waiting to release, a specially planted forest is growing. In a hund…