The Morgan Library & Museum's Come Together: 3,000 Years of Stories and Storytelling will…
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The J. Paul Getty Museum will open its Beginnings: The Story of Creation in the Middle Ages…
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We're happy to share some good news: the Cushing Memorial Library at Texas A&M University has acquired the archives of author, literary critic, and longtime FB&C columnist Nicholas Basbanes, as wel
The Ernest Hemingway biopic, Papa, which premiered in Boston in November, debuted at the Havana Film Festival this past weekend.
ITHACA, NY—National Book Auctions, located in Ithaca, NY, announces the launch of their next auction catalog.
The second in the series of PBA Galleries’ auctions of the Heckrotte library, Rare Cartography, Exploration & Voyages: The Warren Heckrotte Collection, Part II - California & the Way Thither, on December 3, 2015, featured books and maps on the California Gold Rush, and on the surveying…
New York—Swann Galleries’ November 10 auction of 19th & 20th Century Literature Featuring the Lawrence M.
BOSTON—Today, the Boston Public Library (BPL) announced that a map believed stolen from the library more than a decade ago, has been located at a New York City antiques dealer, and has been returned.
Soup fosters a good story, and was an integral narrative element for Pulitzer-Prize winning writer Willa Cather (1873-1947).
In 2016, "the world's most dangerous book," Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler, will be released into the public domain. The book has not been reprinted in German since the conclusion of World War II.
BOSTON, MA—(December 2, 15)—An exceedingly rare Ludwig van Beethoven signature will be auctioned by Boston-based, RR Auction.
As anyone who has read or seen Les Misérables will know, a country's poor are roughly treated and greatly in need of the charity of fellow citizens. Jean Valjean, the protagonist of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel, served a long prison sentence for stealing bread to feed his hungry family. He is changed…
