The American Picture Book’s Unsung Parent: Japan
Missing for decades from the Anglophile version of its origin story was another great visual narrative tradition, of the East ...
Smithsonian Magazine5h
High-Tech Imaging Allows Researchers to Read Handwritten Medieval Arthurian Tales Hidden in the Binding of a Property Record
The stories are part of a French sequel to Arthurian legend, and its binding was repurposed in the 16th century ...
The New York Times1d
Book Review
As Americans scrutinize the accidental leak of a high-level U.S. group chat, several books detail other mishaps in the annals of global conflict. By Thomas E. Ricks In “The Usual Desire to ...
Condé Nast Traveler1d
Visiting the Louvre's Hidden Gift Shop—and the Atelier Where Its Prints Are Made
In the suburbs of Paris, magic is made in the Louvre’s little-known ateliers, writes Elaine Sciolino in this excerpt from her ...
TwinCities.com3d
Abby Jimenez’s romance novels, ranked
It was the height of the COVID pandemic, and I had lost the ability to read for pleasure. My fiction tastes have long tended towards the dystopian — but who wants to read about the apocalypse ...
The Washington Post5d
BOOK REVIEWS
Four historical books about the Tudor court offer insight into what really happened. In “The Stained Glass Window,” David Levering Lewis delves into his ancestry to create a fuller picture of ...
The Ithacan4d
‘Snow White’ writes past the storybook pages
Snow White” premiered in U.S. theaters March 21, reimagining the renowned Disney classic to give Snow White a purpose beyond merely eating a poisoned apple and being woken up by true love’s kiss. She ...
Gentleman's Journal4d
The birth and rebirth of the Penny loafer
An American classic, the Penny loafer has become a must-have in the wardrobes of guys all over the world in 2024 The story of the iconic American penny loafer is, like plenty of great origin tales, a ...