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The Curious World of Isaac D’Israeli

The Curious World of Isaac D’Israeli

Marvin Spevack introduces the Curiosities of Literature, the epic cornucopia of essays on all things literary by Isaac D'Israeli: a scholar, man of letters and father of British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. more

Remembering Roy Gold, Who was Not Excessively Interested in Books

Remembering Roy Gold, Who was Not Excessively Interested in Books

Nicholas Jeeves takes us on a turn through a Borgesian library of defacements. more

Scenes of Reading on the Early Portrait Postcard

Scenes of Reading on the Early Portrait Postcard

When picture postcards began circulating with a frenzy across the United States and Europe at the turn of the twentieth century, a certain motif proved popular: photographs of people posed with books. Melina Moe and Victoria Nebolsin explore this paradoxical sign of interiority and find a class of image that traverses the poles of absorption and theatricality. more