Re-discovered dead letter archive offers rare insight into 17th-century life
There’s mystery and romance in the idea of an unread letter, used as a plot device by such writers as Shakespeare, Colum McCann, and Martin Amis. The recent rediscovery of… Read more »
Walker Evans’s photos and 170K more digitized by the Yale Project
This is huge: the biggest photo collection in American history is now fully searchable and available as an interactive map through Photogrammar, a digital project from Yale University. Aside from… Read more »
New Catholic literary prize
A new literary prize with religious underpinnings has been established by America magazine and St. Thomas More Chapel at Yale University, Ron Charles reports for the Washington Post. Accompanied by… Read more »