According to the LA Times, two venerable institutions are throwing their energies behind a search for lost Sherlock Holmes films. Christi Carras writes: The UCLA Film & Television Archive and… Read more »

Vanity Fair, founded in 1913, created an AMAZING online digital archive with all issues, all pages, and all the fun from the beginning of their time as a magazine until… Read more »

The Green Book is more recently known as a 2019 movie about Dr. Don Shirley, an African-American jazz pianist and composer (Mahershala Ali) and his driver/bodyguard (Viggo Mortensen) on their… Read more »

Learning about family history seems to be the latest trend, with sites like Ancestry.com and 23andMe, but Peter Norman learned part of his family history in the most unexpected way. … Read more »

This is how it begins. Last week, Frank Navarro, a Holocaust scholar and a World Studies, Civics/Economics, and Special Education teacher at Mountain View High School (in Mountain View, California,… Read more »

The Director of London’s British Museum, Neil MacGregor is to step down from his job at the end of this year. MacGregor has been at the helm of the institution… Read more »

Let’s begin with a short quiz: Do you like power? Do you also like ignorance? Do you enjoy imposing your arbitrary wishes and paranoid half-opinions on the population of the… Read more »

Halloween is just around the corner, and while your plans for October 31st might include a haunted house, or even a haunted bookshop, you may want to visit a haunted… Read more »

In the American Prospect, Harold Myerson considers the legacy of Alex Cockburn, who died last Friday at 71, by revisiting his peculiar reaction to the demolition of Pantheon Books in… Read more »

In an essay at the Smart Set, Jessa Crispin defends James Joyce’s hated literary executor, grandson Stephen Joyce, who has for years complicated scholarly access to papers and permissions to… Read more »