A life-size bronze of writer Sylvia Townsend Warner has been unveiled in Dorchester her home county…
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Our Bright Young Librarians series continues today with Jasmine Clark, Digital Scholarship Librarian at Temple University in Philadelphia:
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London — Peter Harrington has launched its new catalogue for Sharjah International Book Fair 2020 – curated specially by the leading rare book dealer for collectors from the Arabian Gulf, whose dedicated community of antiquarian book collectors and experts has grown steadily over recent years.
New York -- “Our market continues to be dynamic and varied,” said Deborah Rogal, director of the photographs and photobooks department, of the October 22 sale of Fine Photographs at Swann Galleries (the first for Rogal as head of the department). “We saw strength in the FSA and other Depression-era…
On Election Day, it is especially important to remember that the U.S. is in a constant state of evolution when it comes to voting rights. Contrary to what you might have learned in school, all Americans haven’t been free to vote since winning independence from England. As originally conceived, the…
The NYPL has acquired by gift, and through the generosity of his family, Arthur Miller's collection of his published plays, books, translations, anthologies, and other publications relating to his work in various editions.
To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the death of Charles Dickens this year, the Isle of Man Post Office in association with the Charles Dickens Museum in London has produced a set of six stamps featuring five of John Leech’s illustrations for A Christmas Carol. The highest value stamp is…
New York — Swann Galleries’ Old Master Through Modern Prints sale on Thursday, November 12 will include masters of printmaking from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries.
Boston — RR Auction's latest Marvels of Modern Music sale is led by the collection of blues musician and writer Tony Glover, a personal friend of Bob Dylan.
Tony Glover (1939–2019) was a musician, writer, and critic, who befriended Bob Dylan in the Minneapolis coffeehouse scene where they would,…
The Poster House was the last place I visited before New York enacted its statewide stay-at-home order back in March. I trekked down to SoHo via an eerily empty Metro North and the subway to catch a glimpse of The Sleeping Giant, an exhibition dedicated to exploring China's economic…
