They can’t help it if they’re lucky: Stanford librarians stumble upon a trove of Dylan bootlegs recorded by… Allen Ginsberg?
A recording of a Nobel Prize winner is really not a huge deal. These people say and read a lot of things; often, they do so in front of microphones… Read more »
An artist transforms Ovid’s Metamorphoses… with blood
The year is 1735. A scholar in London has just purchased a copy of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Eager to read this enduring Latin classic in a beautiful new edition, he opens to… Read more »
Whoa: Keanu Reeves helps start an art book press
Keanu Reeves is many things: an actor, a philanthropist, a meme (twice). Now, he’s adding book publisher to his list of titles. The Matrix star and Excellent Adventure-er, in collaboration with… Read more »
Little Donny’s Adventures in Collusionland
Nothing makes for better internet comedy than some good old-fashioned corruption. Last week, everybody’s second-least favorite Donald Trump made the inexplicable decision to publish his email conversations about a then-upcoming… Read more »
German linguists worry about the girth of a new letter
Language is a notoriously slippery beast. As people continue to insist on using words, they also continue to insist on using them, and spelling them, in their own, sometimes weird,… Read more »
But soft, what light through yonder television breaks?
No writer can truly enter the canon without a suitably gritty origin story. Edgar Alan Poe finally got one with the 2012 film The Raven, as did Truman Capote with 2005’s… Read more »
Don’t be daunted by Amazon, says James Daunt
The age of Amazon undeniably marks the end of bookselling as we’ve long known it. As we’ve mentioned in the past, the online retailer’s recent forays into the world of… Read more »
When you wish upon a university library…
Librarians at the University of Missouri are hoping Christmas comes early this year. They wrote a wish list of books they want for their library and sent it to the… Read more »