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Ancient Egyptian Stories Will Be Published in English for the First Time
Translated from hieroglyphics on monuments, tombs and papyri, the book will present tales few outside of academia have read
Love Truman Capote? Buy His Ashes
Is the sale of Capote’s earthy remains a gauche publicity stunt or an act worthy of the audacious author?
Last Journalists Exit the Birthplace of Modern News
After 300 years, Fleet Street, the London thoroughfare home to dozens of newspapers and thousands of reporters, becomes a tourist stop
Visit the Original Lorax Tree in Dr. Seuss's San Diego
Check out these Seuss-related sites in Theodore Geisel's adopted hometown
Sarah Winnemucca Devoted Her Life to Protecting Native Americans in the Face of an Expanding United States
The 19th-century visionary often found herself stuck between two cultures
Jane Austen’s Music Collection Is Now Online
Play piano like a Darcy with nearly 600 Austen-approved tunes
Anyone Can Contribute to This Giant Poem...if You Can Find This Typewriter
A roving typewriter tries to capture New York's subconscious
Amateur Historian Digs up Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Press Pass From the Spanish Civil War
The celebrated author of “The Little Prince” once covered the Spanish Civil War
What Is Bertsolaritza and Who Are the Basque Poets Who Know It?
At the Folklife Festival, be sure to catch the singing, improvisational poetry slam that’s keeping a language alive
See the Gutenberg Bible, 32,000 3D Mechanical Puzzles and a Lock of Edgar Allen Poe’s Hair at This Rare Library
Curiosity is a credential at Indiana University Library’s Lilly Library
Inventing the Beach: The Unnatural History of a Natural Place
The seashore used to be a scary place, then it became a place of respite and vacation. What happened?
Relive 'Don Quixote' With a Trip Through Miguel de Cervantes’ Spain
Tilt at windmills for the 400th anniversary of the author's death
For Rolling Stones Fans, This Book Is a Dream Come True
Journalist and author Rich Cohen first covered the Stones on tour in the 90s. Now he revisits that trip and the band’s epic history
One Day Only: A Chance to View One Map to Rule Them All
A rare Tolkien-annotated map goes on display June 23
Five Fascinating Details About the Media Mogul Who May Have Written 'Mary Had a Little Lamb'
Everywhere that Sarah Josepha Hale went, success was sure to go
Virtual Reality Film Will Simulate Anne Frank’s Hiding Place
'Anne' will give audiences a sense of what it was like to be in the "Secret Annex"
An AI-Written Novella Almost Won a Literary Prize
A short novel co-written by humans and AI passed the first round of a Japanese literary contest
The Secret History of the Girl Detective
Long before Nancy Drew, avid readers picked up tales of young women solving mysteries
Listen to a Rare Interview With Harper Lee
“[A]ll I want to be is the Jane Austen of South Alabama,” she told radio host Roy Newquist in 1964
Five Things to Know About Harper Lee
The spunky and eloquent author is dead—but her legacy lives on
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