I am not the first reader to love this book for its pictures. It falls open to a pair of bucolic woodcuts of spring and…
Books bring people together. It’s easy to picture a solitary reader, wrapped around an open book, the outside world…
Finding this book among the many felt like discovering a rare gem in a box of costume jewelry, although…
Preserved inside Albert Eames’ copy of the Standard Fifth Reader is a folded handbill. It advertises “plain and fancy…
Since the rise of silent reading in the tenth century, books have promised private experiences. We may later convene with other readers who…
This volume of Cicero’s Orations, including annotations in English and the original speeches in Latin, has me thinking about…
I am unpacking my library. Yes, I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild boredom of order…