LADIES’ MISTAKES—James Laver— Knopf ($2). Among the lost arts is that of writing verse in “heroic couplets.” Though the 18th Century thought it the only wear for poets, it has since dropped completely ...
After the success of his debut memoir, Boy Erased, Garrard Conley felt pressure to follow up his bestselling memoir with a contemporary auto-fictional novel, as many of his contemporaries have done ...
It’s incredible that anyone survived given the calamities and deprivations the crew faced. Yeah, but I was looking for a deeper resonance. Why resuscitate and revive and spend years excavating ...
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — A professor of history and curator-in-charge at the Yale Peabody Museum has released an award-winning book focused on 18th-century information by taking readers on a journey ...
A new book takes readers into collector Edward Brooke-Hitching’s “madman’s library” Meilan Solly - Senior Associate Digital Editor, History An engraving from German zoologist Ernst Haeckel's ...
ADRIENNE: THE LIFE OF THE MARQUISE DE LA FAYETTE (482 pp.)—André Mourois—McGraw-Hill ($7.95). The 16-year-old bridegroom was already dreaming of cutting a swath through battlefield and boudoir. The 14 ...
A rare 18th century Chinese book collection inadvertently was destroyed by Augustana College library staff during a process to eliminate outdated and unused books from the campus library. Professor ...
In early America, local governments, the courts and the clergy collected vital data like births, marriages and deaths. But these records weren’t the only tools people used to track their family ...
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