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Great Gifts for Bibliophiles
Our annual guide to bookish gifts to give—and receive.
We are Storytellers First
Billionaire collector and businessman Steve Green has set his sights on a national museum devoted to the Bible.
On the Paper Trail
In a history of paper that encompasses two millennia, you’re as likely to bump into a covert CIA operative as a traditional Japanese papermaker.
Featured Columns
Gently Mad
Back to Boston
The author revisits his old haunts
Record-Breaker
When Harry Met Matilda
Fundraising with author-annotated and extra-illustrated first editions
Book Art
Druckworks
An interview with Johanna Drucker
Beyond the Basics
Printing and the Mind of Man
This landmark exhibition fifty years ago included two smaller exhibitions of note
In the Library
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George Washington’s New Library
The $100-million Fred W. Smith Library Opened at Mount Vernon
Fine Maps
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Walk the Line
Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon started their epic survey 250 years ago
Sold@Auction
Science and Science Fiction
From Alan Turing’s On Computable Numbers to H. G. Wells’ The First Men in the Moon
On the Block
The Great and the Gruesome
Exploration narratives at Bonhams’ Northwest America & Arctic sale
How I Got Started
The 1972 Olympic Games
Collector Matthew Gin