Digest
It began with Begotten, filmmaker E. Elias Merhige’s 1989 black-and-white allegory about death and transformation.
There’s a pervasive notion that young people, screen in hand, do not enjoy books the way older generations do, and yet collegiate book collecting contests remain popular.
When Whitman College sociology professor Álvaro Santana-Acuña was in high school, he came across a story that would change his life.
William Shakespeare made some rounds in his time, and many, many more rounds after his time.
This year’s suffrage centennial puts the spotlight on women’s history, four centuries of which are preserved in the Dobkin Family Collection of Feminism.
How individual collectors have influenced a national collection
The former curator of David Copperfield’s library discusses the enchanting combination of books and magic
What’s up his sleeve is as interesting as what’s on his shelf: For the last sixty-five or so years, Leo Behnke has been a professional magician with a passion for collecting (and writing) books on
