This weekend, the Park Avenue Armory will fill with rare books, yellowing photographs and ancient manuscripts. It’s the annual New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, when book dealers and ...

The idea that everything that exists can be built from the bottom up has long held sway among physicists. Now, a new kind of ...

The HLO, which is expanding into the U.S., shares many of the same objectives as a lending library, writes Judy Bolton-Fasman ...

In 1943, the United States government administered a questionnaire to people of Japanese descent who had been confined to ...

'The Antiquarian's Object of Desire' is India Holton's latest installment in her 'Love's Academic series,' three books that ...

This object sparked questions worldwide - now there’s an answer For weeks, this mysterious object had scientists and the public asking the same question. Its origin and nature remained unclear, ...

In 2015, the photographer Joel Meyerowitz found himself in the preserved studio of the Italian painter Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964). Casa Morandi at 36 Via Fondazza in Bologna – a museum that was ...

“Nonesuch,” the new novel by Francis Spufford, conjures a plot laced with magic to change the course of history. By Louisa Hall Louisa Hall is the author of the novels “Reproduction,” “Trinity” and ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. A critical work in the history of ...

“I cannot say of any consumer product I have bought that it ‘gets me here,’ if here is someplace new,” the novelist Sheila Heti wrote in a 2018 essay on consumerism. Therein lies the inherent tragedy ...