Arts & Literature

Online language learning from German and Spanish to Russian, Japanese, and Mandarin Chinese. No downloads required.

For readers of picture books, chapter books, and young adult books.

Titles, articles and lists for your fiction and nonfiction reading interests.

Information on thousands of authors and their works.

Online versions, complete with graphics, of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources in multiple subject areas

Online streaming video of theater performances and film documentaries

Audio files from an international network, including folk and world music, jazz, blues and sound effects

Background information about writers from around the world, including essays on their work

Catalog of books and other materials in libraries all over the world

Full-text poems, as well as an index to find additional poetry