Books
The Quest to Better Describe the Scent of Old Books
Describing a unique smell just got easier thanks to a pair of olfactory detectives
Liberals and Conservatives Read Totally Different Books About Science
The good news: Everyone likes dinosaurs
A Second Doomsday Vault—This One to to Preserve Data—Is Opening in Svalbard
Known as the Arctic World Archive, it will store copies of books, archives and documents on special film
The Science Behind Your Cheap Wine
How advances in bottling, fermenting and taste-testing are democratizing a once-opaque liquid
Women On the Frontlines of WWI Came to Operate Telephones
The “Hello Girls” risked their lives to run military communications—and were denied recognition when they returned home
How a KGB Spy Defected and Became a U.S. Citizen
Jack Barsky wanted to stay in the country, so he let the Soviets think he was dead
George Orwell Wrote '1984' While Dying of Tuberculosis
Orwell, like thousands around the globe today, struggled with tuberculosis for many years before finally succumbing to the disease
This Game Turns James Joyce’s Most Notorious Novel Into Virtual Reality
But will it make you want to finish <i>Ulysses</i>?
France’s Famous High School Exam Will Soon Feature Its First Woman Author
Madame da La Fayette will infuse a much-needed POV into France’s literary curriculum
Emily Dickinson Was Fiercer Than You Think
A new biopic shows the poet as more than a mysterious recluse
White Southerners Said “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” Was Fake News
So its author published a “key” to what’s true in the novel
One Writer Used Statistics to Reveal the Secrets of What Makes Great Writing
In his new book, data journalist Ben Blatt takes a by-the-numbers look at literary classics and finds some fascinating patterns
How Humans Invented Numbers—And How Numbers Reshaped Our World
Anthropologist Caleb Everett explores the subject in his new book, <em>Numbers and the Making Of Us</em>
Don't Judge the Book-of-the-Month Club By Its Cover
Although today you might associate its name with staid offerings, the club’s first book was by an openly queer author
A New Exhibition Explores the Science and Math in Children's Book Illustrations
The 29 artworks on display capture the wonder in nature, engineering and discoveries
Nosy Researchers Are Sniffing a Vintage Library
It’s all an effort to recreate an olfactory landscape of yore
Five Things to Know About Little Golden Books
What to know as the iconic series of children's books celebrates 75 years
A Graduate Student Just Discovered a Lost Work of Fiction by Walt Whitman
The serialized novella was first published anonymously in 1852
The First Telephone Book Had Fifty Listings and No Numbers
It came out less than two years after Alexander Graham Bell invented the device
When Lincoln Was More a Politician Than an "Honest Abe"
He resorted to a dirty trick to embarrass a rival
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