“Nearly 50 years after Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship hunted leftist texts, librarians in Santiago, Chile, uncovered a forgotten cache in the National Library’s attic, rekindling the tale of publishers, readers, and catalogers who refused to let culture die. Staff at Chile’s National Library opened a dusty garret and discovered boxes of books and pamphlets tied to [Pinochet’s predecessor] Salvador Allende’s government: socialist texts, communist tracts, and even presidential speeches that had never entered the catalog. That they survived at all feels improbable. After the military coup of September 11, 1973, soldiers raided publishing houses, homes, and libraries.”