Ten years ago, there were huge celebrations to mark the 800th anniversary of the first issuing of the Magna Carta agreement.
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Flannery O’Connor is best known as a master of Southern Gothic storytelling, but before writing classics like “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” and Wise Blood, she wanted to be an artist.
In 1906, a young French woman named Clothilde Coulaux made a lushly illuminated manuscript with religious imagery and scenes of everyday life in German-occupied Alsace.
Book collector Nicholas Royle—whose trilogy on the subject will be complete when Finders, Keepers is published by Salt next spring—is not simply interested in the volumes he gathers. He’s also…
For centuries, evidence of a lost technology was tucked away in archives and libraries around the world.
"I am going to Winchester,” Jane Austen wrote to her friend Anne Sharp on May
When the Frick Collection reopens this April, New York City and the world will once again have access to a beloved institution of fine and decorative arts.
Stepping into Arion Press’s new space in San Francisco is a bit like stepping into the past.
