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No. 47 · November 2026

Margins.

Long reads on cities, craft and the natural world

Cities

How we live together, and the places that make it possible.

Stories

A domed reading room with rings of wooden desks beneath ornate galleries

Cities

What the reading room remembers

A hundred and twelve desks under a dome, and a waiting list. Why a library built in 1913 is the hardest seat in the city to get.

By Leila Moradi · 2 min read