"AUSTIN, Texas -- The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin has acquired a rare Plantin Polyglot...

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"Considered a Kansas City landmark for history enthusiasts, David R. Spivey Rare Books, Maps and Fine Arts is a destination of historic...

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"In 2004, he returned to his fifth floor Kabul apartment to find his beloved library - which had over 2,000 rare books in Pashto and...

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GUEST INTERVIEW BY DENISE HAMILTON Nina Revoyr was born in Japan to a Japanese mother and a white American father, and grew up in To...

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Elevator Repair Service brings a sanity, humility and theatrical ingenuity to their interpretation of William Faulkner’s 1929 novel.

Mr. Warner was the author of “Beautiful Swimmers,” a study of crabs and watermen in the Chesapeake Bay, which won the Pulitzer...

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William J. Bernstein argues that world trade has been a major force in driving the whole history of humankind.

Tony Horwitz’s new book is about the American history most Americans never learned, like the story of a 17th-century colony established...

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The Los Angeles Times's Scott Timberg reports on an hoax in which con artists posing as authors are trying to bilk indie bookstore owners out of some Western U...

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