Rebecca Rego Barry
Facebook is hardly good for anything anymore, but one of its finer applications is allowing a global audience of book lovers to share information and images in a handful of terrific rare book-relat
Opening at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, on July 12 is Gonzo
Many people will recognize Desmond Morris as the author of The Naked Ape (1967).
Last month, the University of Iowa (UI) Libraries Special Collections announced that it has become the new home of the renowned Sackner Archive of Visual and Concrete Poetry.
In Herman Melville’s bicentennial year, which he shares with Walt Whitman, Chronicle Books has published a
It’s Walt Whitman’s bicentennial year, and that has meant lots of press for ‘America’s poet.’ A feature story in our current issue explores the three major New York-based exhibitions on view the…
This rather odd-looking globe headed to auction in New York on June 12 reveals
For many people summer brings at least a short break from the workaday world, time to be spent chipping away at personal projects and hobbies or simply reading a great (bookish) novel.
In 1866, a teenage Bram Stoker lurked in the shadow of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin. What was the future author of Dracula up to?
Stephen King’s first published novel, Carrie, about a bullied high-schooler who uses telekinetic powers to exact revenge, was released in hardcover in 1974 and met with moderate success.
