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The Niépce Heliograph The Niépce Heliograph See the earliest surviving photograph produced in the camera obscura. Currently on View The invention of photography was announced simultaneously in France and England in 1839, dazzling the public and sending waves of excitement around the world. These astonishing breakthrough...

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At Risk: Ukraine's Museum of the Book and Printing The Museum of the Book and Printing was established in 1972, the international year of the book, and contains thousands of objects that trace Ukraine’s unique print and manuscript history.

From Toni Morrison to Edna O’Brien and Nawal El Saadawi: 50 years of the best in women’s writing These are the authors who exposed the patriarchal bias in English literature in the 1970s

The 8 Worst Things About Working at a Bookstore First up: you spend your whole paycheck there. Who needs groceries?

Life Got You Down? Time to Read The Master and Margarita ‘“And what is your particular field of work?” asked Berlioz. “I specialize in black magic.”’ If many Russian classics are dark and deep and full of the horrors of the blackness of the human soul (o…

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The Second Coming of Octavia E. Butler Sixteen years after the visionary novelist’s death, Hollywood is bringing a slew of her intense sci-fi novels to the screen.

A Landmark Photo Archive of Black Life in New York Comes to the Met With the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Met will acquire and conserve thousands of photographs by James Van Der Zee, the virtuoso portraitist who brought to life the optimism of the Harlem Renaissance.

Here are the Biggest Fiction Bestsellers of the Last 100 Years As the year draws to a close, some of us like to look forward, and some of us backward—and some way backward. Last month, while working on the not-at-all-controversial Books That Defined the Decade…

A Metal Detectorist Discovered a Tiny Gold Book From the 15th Century That Might Have Belonged to King Richard III's Wife NHS nurse and metal detectorist Buffy Bailey found the unique and fascinating object while on holiday in York.

Joyce Carol Oates Thinks You Should Write Your Heart Out Joyce Carol Oates has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award, and T…

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week Louise Erdrich’s The Sentence, Lily King’s Five Tuesdays in Winter, Ken Follett’s Never, and David Graeber & David Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of …

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Our 2021 Exhibit Hapless Children is moving into its last six weeks. A visit is highly encouraged as these unfortunate kids don't stay kids forever. The House is open Fridays, Saturday and Sundays through Dec 31st (closed Xmas).

Opinion | Forget Amazon. The Best Gifts Are Closer Than You Think. It’s time to revive the tradition of puttering about in our favorite shops, looking for something that would make a loved one’s eyes light up.

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Saving Bookstores in the Age of Amazon Booksellers Try to Imagine a Future For Themselves. Will Readers Buy It?

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2021 Symposium: October 15-17 On Line! - The Daguerreian Society The Daguerreian Society is a non-profit organization that brings together a community of people from all over the world, who are united by a common interest in and passion for all types of early photography. Our international members include top museum curators and scientists, photo collectors and d...

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Rarely-seen photos tell the story of America's Black Civil War soldiers Through a rich archive of forgotten Civil War-era photographs, historian Deborah Willis uncovers the often overlooked role of African American soldiers, cooks and medical workers.

A Scholar Has Uncovered Hidden Messages in the Prayer Book That Anne Boleyn Is Said to Have Carried to Her Death | Artnet News A historian has discovered secret messages hidden in the book of hours prayer book Anne Boleyn is said to have carried to her death.