“The history of bookmaking hasn’t been without its challenges, but never was its craft as painstaking as during the era of illuminated manuscripts,” says Maria Popova. Well, try laying out… 2 / Read more »

The re-launched Baffler — back from the dead under editor John Summers — carries a 10-page takedown of The Atlantic by Maureen Tkacik. The piece (“Omniscient Gentleman of The Atlantic,” not available… Read more »

The English historian Ronald Fraser has died. He was the author of a number of books on Spanish history including In Search of a Past and In Hiding, which Arthur Miller… Read more »

At Vanity Fair, Kurt Anderson argues that there have been no radical change in style, culture, art, and fashion over the last 20 years—a stark contrast to every other two decade… 5 / Read more »

Two weeks ago, André Schiffrin, founder of The New Press, the former publisher of Pantheon Books, and the author of our A Political Eduction, was awarded the Chevalier in the… Read more »

In his new novel, 11/22/63, Stephen King “employs a time traveler to interview Lee Harvey Oswald’s mysterious associate George De Mohrenschildt since he died of shotgun blast to his head… Read more »

“Of all the murders committed in New York City in 1964 — 636, to be ­precise — only that of Catherine ­Susan Genovese launched a whole subfield of social science:… Read more »

In what can only be called an incredible feat of conservation technology, a 1,000 year old text by Archimedes is now on view at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.… Read more »

A profile of Hendrik Hertzberg in Current Biography tells the tale of how the famed essayist came to the New Yorker. Like many New Yorker stories, the tale begins at… Read more »

A fund-raiser for the Sandy Museum, in Sandy, Utah turned up something thoroughly unexpected. According to a Fox 13 report, a man brought in a book that turned out to… Read more »