Rebecca Rego Barry
The bold assemblage of Betye Saar was the focus of a feature story in our winter 2021 issue, when the Morgan Library hosted a major
Last week, Sotheby’s held an auction titled “50 Masterworks to Celebrate 50 Years of Sotheby’s Photographs,” and while the sale sputtered a bit, the sleeper was
In case you missed it earlier this month, Tulane University Libraries presented this one-hour introduction to artist books, in conversation with three book
A Massachusetts antiquarian bookseller is offering for sale a first edition of Ethan Frome (1911), with what book collectors call major 'association' value.
Books once owned by William Safire, presidential speechwriter under Nixon, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and avowed grammar stickler, are
The New York, Chicago, and Paris-based manuscript specialists Les Enluminures have just released the fifth in a new
This past Monday, PBS released the first of its three-part, six-hour documentary exploring the life and work of Ernest Hemingway, directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick.
In October 1955, Allen Ginsberg read “Howl” publicly for the first time in front of a San Francisco audience that included fellow Beat Generation poets Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac, and
Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge (Harvard University Press,
Larry McMurtry, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Oscar-winning screenwriter, and esteemed antiquarian bookseller, who died last week at the age of 84, was something of a patron saint of bibliophi
