Books
An Artist Is Building a Parthenon of Banned Books
More than 100,000 books will become a monument to intellectual freedom in Germany next year
When the Mob Owned Cuba
Best-selling author T.J. English discusses the Mob's profound influence on Cuban culture and politics in the 1950s
Scientists Find That Frankenstein’s Monster Could Have Wiped Out Humanity
Thank goodness his creator never finished his proposed girlfriend
Five Things to Know About Evangelical Cartoonist Jack Chick
The controversial artist died after 50 years of publishing comics
A Brief History of Wizard Rock
This Halloween, check out a genre devoted to Harry Potter's Wizarding World
What to Know About Shakespeare's Newly Credited Collaborator Christopher Marlowe
Textual analysis convinced the editors of <i>The New Oxford Shakespeare</i> to make Marlowe a co-author on the "Henry VI" plays, parts 1, 2 and 3
Renaissance Europe Was Horrified by Reports of a Sea Monster That Looked Like a Monk Wearing Fish Scales
Something fishy this way comes
How the 2016 MacArthur Genius Award Recipient Lauren Redniss Is Rethinking Biography
The visual biographer of Marie and Pierre Curie turns to her next subject, weather, lightning and climate change
Seeking the Humanity of Al Capone
Through interviews with his descendants, one biographer sees the family man behind the infamous gangster
When Curious George Made a Daring Escape From the Nazis
The authors of the children's book series fled wartime France with the manuscript tied to their bikes
What Living Like Goats and Badgers Can Teach Us About Ourselves
Two Englishmen won the Ig Nobel Prize for eating grass, earthworms and worse in the name of science
This Speedy, Wall-Crawling Conveyor System Will Now Deliver Books at the New York Public Library
Like a robotic, book-carrying train
Channel Childhoods Gone By With This Digital Archive of Victorian Children’s Books
From nursery rhymes to religious lectures, this digital archive shows how kids read in a bygone age
Scientists Virtually Peek Inside Ancient Biblical Charred Scrolls
A completely burned Biblical text is now readable
The Many Futuristic Predictions of H.G. Wells That Came True
Born 150 years ago, H.G. Wells predicted, and inspired, inventions from the laser to email
A British Jail Is Paying Artistic Tribute to Oscar Wilde, its Most Famous Inmate
Patti Smith, Ai Weiwei and others envision what it's like to be <i>Inside</i>
Visit the Manuscript of 'Jane Eyre' in New York
The handwritten novel is in the United States for the first time—along with an exhibition of artifacts from Charlotte Brontë’s brief and brilliant life
You Could Own F. Scott Fitzgerald’s House
Live in the Victorian rowhouse where a career was born
This Camera Uses Radiation to Read Closed Books
No need to open a book to read past its cover
Four Finds from University of Kansas' Collection of Radical Zines
The university's Solidarity! Radical Library boasts a collection of almost 1,000 alternative papers
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