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When I started writing books fifty years ago, I was inspired by Ballantine paperbacks that combined the works of Thoreau, John Muir, and Robinson Jeffers with photographs of the landscapes they des
Every December Steve Gargani, a pressroom manager for printing giant R. R. Donnelley, would look forward to the day a supervisor would visit employees with paychecks and the company holiday gift.
Located on the second floor of the New York Public Library’s Schwarzman Building on Fifth Avenue, behind heavy polished wood doors, is heaven for the fifteen men and women chosen to spend the acade
It was 1895, and it was then that Edward Sheriff Curtis took his first portraits of a Native American. The princess was Kikisoblu, the eldest daughter of Chief Sealth, for whom Seattle is named.
The hour’s drive north from London culminated at a long, packed-earth driveway past a field of grazing horses.
Before digging into the nitty-gritty of what Archbishop Bruguès has undertaken—wrangling the Vatican Library into the twenty-first century—I asked the seventy-four-year-old French-born Dominican…
If, like us, you have missed the annual Fine Books gift guide, pine no longer. Our editorial staff has put together a short list of bookish items sure to win over any book lover.
When you stand inside somebody’s library, you get a powerful sense of who they are, and not just who they are now, but who they’ve been,” writes Lev Grossman in Unpacking My Library: Writers an
Our guide to the book fairs, auctions & exhibitions in NYC, March 4-11
Earlier this year, we invited hundreds of antiquarian and rare book dealers to tell us about a unique or noteworthy recent sale.
