July 2024
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Once upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller by Oliver Darkshire
5 stars
Welcome to Sotheran’s, one of the oldest bookshops in the world, with its weird and wonderful clientele, suspicious cupboards, unlabeled …
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Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America by Denise Gigante
The fascinating history of American bookishness as told through the sale of Charles Lamb’s library in 1848
Charles Lamb’s library—a …
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No Fond Return of Love by Barbara Pym
5 stars
"Dulcie Mainwearing is always helping others, but never looks out for herself - especially in the realm of love. Her …
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The Robben Island Shakespeare by Matthew Hahn
During the Apartheid years in South Africa, a copy of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare was smuggled around the …
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The Networked Wilderness by Matt Cohen
In The Networked Wilderness, Matt Cohen examines communications systems in early New England and finds that, surprisingly, struggles over information …
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Cut/Copy/Paste by Whitney Trettien
How do early modern media underlie today’s digital creativity?
In Cut/Copy/Paste, Whitney Trettien journeys to the fringes of the London …
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Revolution in Type by Ayelet Brinn
A fascinating glimpse into the complex and often unexpected ways that women and ideas about women shaped widely read Jewish …
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingly back to …
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Fake Love Letters, Forged Telegrams, and Prison Escape Maps by Annie Atkins
Although graphic props such as invitations, letters, tickets, and packaging are rarely seen close-up by a cinema audience, they are …
sarah says: September 2024
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People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
4 stars
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war. …
sarah says: August 2024
