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An Afterlife by Francesca Wade ...

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And yet, as Eric Marshall White persuasively argues in his admirable new biography of Gutenberg, such methods did not and ...

Invasion of the Book Snatchers ...

Twenty years ago I proposed to a publisher a book about parties in literature and history. I have always liked parties, largely because of their unscripted nature and air of imminent danger. Giving or ...

If you upset someone, they might say you’re chopping onions on their heart (yethrem basal all ras efadi), a term similar in ...

Proto-Indo-European (PIE), the language reconstructed by philologists and the common ancestor of IE languages, was itself a ...

The Man Who Made the Modern World by Graham Tomlin ...

In 1843, two years before her death at the age of seventy-two, Cassandra Austen told her brother Charles that she had been ‘looking over & destroying some of my Papers’, but was keeping ‘a few letters ...

Under its longest-serving editor, Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair was that rare thing – a New York society magazine that published serious journalism. @PeterPeteryork looks at what Carter got right. Peter ...