October 20, 2011
The Worst Business in the World
Everyday is doomsday if you ask certain people about the future of publishing. But the history of bookselling proves it is more adaptive than its critics give it credit for.
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October 20, 2011
Everyday is doomsday if you ask certain people about the future of publishing. But the history of bookselling proves it is more adaptive than its critics give it credit for.
Read MoreOctober 14, 2011
The work of Tomas Tranströmer has never been weighted down by politics or sentiment, explains Celia Farber, who has known the poet for years.
Read MoreOctober 07, 2011
Curtis White discusses the connection between bookselling and book culture and what the current shift in the former means for the future of 'literature.'
Read MoreOctober 04, 2011
H.G. Wells takes Fritz Lang’s Metropolis to task for its sentimentality and failure to display a believable future.
Read MoreSeptember 14, 2011
Leonardo da Vinci may have been a genius polymath, but at the heart of his work was a love of food and kitchen experiments.
Read MoreSeptember 01, 2011
Authenticity it is taken for granted by those born within old culinary traditions, but pursued precisely by those for whom the “local” is reduced to the farmer’s market.
Read MoreJanuary 19, 2011
Visiting an author’s home is a curious endeavor. What do we expect from these literary pilgrimages?
Read MoreDecember 13, 2010
Building and updating Rome’s subway is a painstaking process as it traverses ancient and hallowed ground.
Read More2023:
Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.
c. 1850:
Thompson of Sunderland makes his mark on Pompey’s pillar.
2023:
Writers on strike search for romance at the picket line.
c. 1945:
Young communists engage in party matchmaking.