Rare Flaubert Manuscript Goes to Auction
It must be a slow news week here in the United States, because I’ve been reading an awful lot about rare books overseas. And the latest edition is a real zinger: a… Read more »
The Art of the Novella Challenge 49: The Duel (Conrad)
Title: The Duel Author: Joseph Conrad First published: 1908 Page count: 115 First line: Napoleon I., whose career had the quality of a duel against the whole of Europe, disliked… Read more »
Siberian man has handcrafted the world’s smallest, tiniest, littlest book
Vladimir Aniskin, a Siberian micro-miniaturist, claims to have produced the worlds smallest book. According to ABC news: The micro-book consists of several pages, each measuring only very tiny fractions of… Read more »
How to cure us: the medical demons and demonic medicine of Dr. Mikhail Bulgakov
Like most men of science, Serge Voronoff was a romantic. His dream was simple: to prove the viability of cross-species tissue grafts—or, in layman’s terms, to replace the past-their-prime testicles… Read more »
SLIDESHOW: Are dachshunds the most artful of dogs?
Nabokov admired one. Chekhov cuddled with one. E.B. White wrote poetry to them. Gary Shteyngart tweets about one. (Also: Warhol had two. Picasso drew one.) At The New York Daily News’s Page Views… 7 / Read more »