Digest
A landmark anniversary calls for a landmark celebration.
Bestiaries, allegorical texts with pages of illuminated animals—some real, like the lion, some mythical, like the griffin—were the bestsellers of their day. Until now, there has been no more…
An epistolary interview with John Coffer, one of the world’s foremost wet-plate photographers, suddenly comes to a close with: “Well, gotta’ go move some cattle.” The interview is being conducted b
On New Year’s Day in 1920, a horse-drawn wagon carrying a typewriter and 175 books pulled up outside of a basement on West 45th Street in Manhattan.
Frances Steloff’s famous Manhattan bookshop is the subject of an exhibition at Penn Libraries
It’s not a surprise that John Ronald Reuel Tolkien received a lot of fan mail during his life, but it is a surprise how diverse in nature it is.
We all think we know Thoreau. Some might call the author of Walden a forward-thinking genius, others a freeloading mansplainer.
