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    The Book of Colour Concepts: A New 800-Page Celebration of Color Theory, Including Works by Newton, Goethe, and Hilma af Klint

    The Book of Colour Concepts will soon be published by Taschen in a multilingual edition, containing...

  • Frank Herbert Explains the Origins of Dune (1969)

    Dune: Part Two has been playing in theaters for less than a week, but that’s more...

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    How Jane Austen Changed Fiction Forever

    Though Jane Austen hasn’t published a novel since 1817 — with her death that same year...

  • A Look Inside David Bowie & Iman’s Beautiful Mountain Home

    It’s difficult to imagine Iman and David Bowie inviting Vogue readers to join them on the...

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    A 500-Page Book Explores the Ghosts & Monsters from Japanese Folklore

    Westerners tend to think of Japan as a land of high-speed trains, expertly prepared sushi and...

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    The Codex Seraphinianus: How Italian Artist Luigi Serafini Came to Write & Illustrate “the Strangest Book Ever Published” (1981)

    The Codex Seraphinianus is not a medieval book; nor does it date from the Renaissance along...

  • Read Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World: The First Sci-Fi Novel Written By a Woman (1666)

    For a variety of reasons, science fiction has long been regarded as a mostly male-oriented realm...

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    Free Download: A Knitting Pattern for a Sweater Depicting an Iconic Cover of George Orwell’s 1984

    It’s winter, and we still have a ways to go. So maybe we could interest you...

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    Ten Magnificent Historical Libraries (That You Can Still Visit Today)

    When we first travel somewhere, we see nothing quite so clearly as the usual categories of...

  • Watch a 106-Year-Old Wizard of Oz Book Get Magically Restored … By Cutting the Book’s Spine, Washing Pages & Recoloring Illustrations

    Author, educator and book restoration expert Sophia Bogle is in a constant race against time. Her...

  • Hortus Eystettensis: The Beautifully Illustrated Book of Plants That Changed Botanical Art Overnight (1613)

    If you made it big in seventeenth-century Bavaria, you showed it by creating a garden with...

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    What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2024: Enjoy Classic Works by Virginia Woolf, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, D. H. Lawrence, Bertolt Brecht & More

    More than thirty years after it was first privately published in 1928, Lady Chatterley’s Lover became...

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    The Origin Story of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: How a 1939 Marketing Gimmick Launched a Beloved Christmas Character

    It’s time to forget nearly everything you know about Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer…at least as established...

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    Napoleon’s Kindle: Discover the Miniaturized Traveling Library That the Emperor Took on Military Campaigns

    Every piece of technology has a precedent. Most have several different types of precedents. You’ve probably...