Inside Summer 2016
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A Breath of Jane Eyre
Revisiting Haworth on the bicentennial of Charlotte Brontë's birth
BY A. N. DEVERS
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Relations Between Poetry and Painting
American poet Wallace Stevens adored French art. Sixty years after his death, his prized collection is for sale.
BY JOHN MCINTYRE
GENTLY MAD
A Dante Devotee
Novelist Matthew Pearl’s leap into the Inferno
DIGEST
Ed Ruscha’s Archive
DIGEST
Mental Photographs
DIGEST
Cartoon Crossroads Columbus
DIGEST
Passports of the Rich and Famous
RECORD-BREAKER
A Colorful Cosmographia
Ptolemy prevails
IN VIEW
Extra-Ordinary Pictures
Art in the age of stock photography
BEYOND THE BASICS
An Introduction to Introductions
Why reading the prefatory material is essential
IN THE LIBRARY
Women at Work
Inside the Lisa Unger Baskin Collection at Duke
SOLD@AUCTION
Snow White, Tintin, and… Macbeth
A roundup of first editions, maps, manuscripts, and fine art
ON THE BLOCK
Beyond All Expectations
Mohamed and Margaret Makiya’s library
HOW I GOT STARTED
Modern Indian Authors & Cricketing
Collector V. R. Ferose
Fine Maps
A River Runs Through It
There is a river in the ocean,” announced Matthew Fontaine Maury to the first congress of the National Institute for the Advancement of Science. As…
By Jeffrey S. Murray
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Feature
A Breath of Jane Eyre
Revisiting Haworth on the bicentennial of Charlotte Brontë's birth
BY A. N. DEVERS
Feature
Relations Between Poetry and Painting
American poet Wallace Stevens adored French art. Sixty years after his death, his prized collection is for sale.
BY JOHN MCINTYRE
GENTLY MAD
A Dante Devotee
Novelist Matthew Pearl’s leap into the Inferno
DIGEST
Ed Ruscha’s Archive
DIGEST
Mental Photographs
DIGEST
Cartoon Crossroads Columbus
DIGEST
Passports of the Rich and Famous
RECORD-BREAKER
A Colorful Cosmographia
Ptolemy prevails
IN VIEW
Extra-Ordinary Pictures
Art in the age of stock photography
BEYOND THE BASICS
An Introduction to Introductions
Why reading the prefatory material is essential
IN THE LIBRARY
Women at Work
Inside the Lisa Unger Baskin Collection at Duke
SOLD@AUCTION
Snow White, Tintin, and… Macbeth
A roundup of first editions, maps, manuscripts, and fine art
ON THE BLOCK
Beyond All Expectations
Mohamed and Margaret Makiya’s library
HOW I GOT STARTED
Modern Indian Authors & Cricketing
Collector V. R. Ferose