Nobel Prize–winning author Doris Lessing was born one hundred years ago, on October 22, 1919.
Books + Manuscripts
Why are some books collected and others merely read?
During the latter half of the nineteenth century, cheap and shoddy reprints of Jane Austen’s novels brought her work to the general public.
Gutenberg Misbound
When Johann Gutenberg and his team published their Bible in the mid-1450s, what they were selling to buyers were sets of sheets, sheets of either paper or parchment that had text printed on them. What they were not selling were books—not, at least, if we take “book,” as we usually do,… read more