by AARON T. PRATT Any Shakespeare collector would want a copy of Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles, which is arguably the most comprehensive history of England, Ireland, and Scotland written during the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries. Carl H. Pforzheimer bought a copy of the first edition (1577) for his library of early… read more
Books + Manuscripts
UNTIL AUGUST: A NOVEL by Gabriel García Márquez
Excerpt from UNTIL AUGUST: A NOVEL by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Anne McLean, translation copyright © 2024 by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House… read more
J. M. Coetzee’s Garden of Creation
by HERMANN WITTENBERG Important additions to the Coetzee Papers shed light on the author’s recent writing Working in a literary archive can be a remarkable experience, like being present in a garden of creation. When reading through the early manuscript versions of novels, one can encounter a textual labyrinth of… read more