The archive in Melbourne has been open for 152 years and began with a donation after a newspaper, The Australasian, went out ...

The print edition of Merriam-Webster was once a touchstone of authority and stability. Then the internet brought about a ...

Cartoonist and counterculture icon R. Crumb reflects on his remarkable life and work in a new interview from his home in the South of France.

Geoffrey Chaucer is known as the “father of English literature” for his medieval classic The Canterbury Tales, a work that ...

James Quinn’s lucid, authoritative and brilliantly concise study of the 1798 Rebellion contains a passage that answers ...

Collins-Robert French-English, English French dictionary : unabridged / by Beryl T. Atkins ... [et al.]Smithsonian Libraries and Archives ...

Le Guernic leads mixed groups of Chinese and international tourists through Shanghai's streets, treating the city as a living text. What began as cultural tours to learn the French language have ...

If economic and technological transformations have changed our relationship with literature before, they could do so again.

Part of the appeal of the Boyle myth may be that it promised a clean break: a waymark at which alchemy was cast aside and chemistry took over. But such changes rarely if ever happen in science, and ...

Discover how Jean-Baptiste Say coined 'entrepreneur' in the 1800s. Learn about its meaning, economic significance, and how ...

We asked novelists to anthropologists, scientists, criminologists and experts in politics, publishing & philosophy for their favourite books.