Books
Should the Skeleton of a Dinosaur That Helped Inspire 'Jurassic Park' Be Sold to the Highest Bidder?
The rare fossil could sell for $6 million at auction
The Surprisingly Long History of 'Choose-Your-Own-Adventure' Stories
From the 'I Ching' to an upcoming Netflix rom-com, interactive fiction dares us to decide what happens next
You Can Now Explore an Open-Source Encyclopedia of 10,000 Years of South Asian Art
The online reference aims to make the region's masterpieces more accessible than ever
Lost Charlotte Brontë Manuscript Sells for $1.25 Million
The tiny booklet contains the author's last unpublished poems
Want to Work Out Like Walt Whitman or Henry VIII? Try These Historic Fitness Regimens
Travel through time by lifting like passengers on the Titanic or swimming like the sixth U.S. president
Holocaust Survivors Ask Israel Museum to Return One-of-a-Kind Haggadah
Their lawsuit claims the Passover book was stolen, then purchased under dubious circumstances
How Yellow Fever Intensified Racial Inequality in 19th-Century New Orleans
A new book explores how immunity to the disease created opportunities for white, but not Black, people
This Pandemic Mapping Project Shows How Covid-19 Transformed Our Worlds
Hundreds of homemade maps reveal how people from around the globe found their ways through crisis
Greta Thunberg Is Publishing the 'Ultimate Guide' to Climate Change
The book will feature contributions from over 100 novelists, scientists and activists
Stolen Charles Darwin Notebooks Returned After 22 Years
One of the items contains the renowned naturalist's first sketch of the Tree of Life
The Man Who Walked Around the World, Collecting the Autographs of the Rich and Famous
In the early 1900s, Joseph Mikulec traveled some 175,000 miles on foot, gathering 60,000 signatures in a leather-bound album that is now up for sale
This Small Library Off the Coast of Maine Is Collecting Banned Books
With challenges to books in the United States at a high, the Matinicus Island Library is a remote haven for controversial literature
A Museum in Rome Narrates Italian History Through Cookbooks and Kitchenware
Reopening this spring, Garum explores more than 500 years of local culinary traditions
The Enslaved Woman Who Liberated a Slave Jail and Transformed It Into an HBCU
Forced to bear her enslaver's children, Mary Lumpkin later forged her own path to freedom
Françoise Gilot Was More Than Picasso's Muse
The artist famously inspired the Cubist, but a new book shows that her own paintings deserve renown
Why Are Regency-Era Shows Like 'Bridgerton' So Popular?
An Austen expert and a period drama TV critic reflect on the enduring appeal of romance series set in turn-of-the-19th-century England
How Kate Warne, America's First Woman Detective, Foiled a Plot to Assassinate Abraham Lincoln
In February 1861, the Pinkerton agent, posing as the disguised president-elect's sister and caregiver, safely escorted him to Baltimore
Leap Into the Surprising, Art-Filled Life of Beatrix Potter in a New Exhibition
The beloved author of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" also wrote diaries in code, sketched fungi and raised prize-winning sheep
Rarely Seen Paintings by J.R.R. Tolkien Portray a Lush 'Lord of the Rings' Landscape
The Tolkien Estate recently published a trove of rare, unpublished art by the famed fantasy author on its website
Vladimir Putin's Rewriting of History Draws on a Long Tradition of Soviet Myth-Making
Much like Joseph Stalin, the Russian president has used propaganda, the media and government-sanctioned books to present an ahistorical narrative
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