Ludwig Bemelmans is perhaps best known for creating the plucky Parisian schoolgirl Madeline, and...
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Orwell’s Birthplace in India Will Become a Museum
The nearly ruined colonial bungalow where George Orwell was born in the small Bihar frontier town...
Manuscript of Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone”...
On Tuesday, the working draft of Bob Dylan’s iconic song “Like a Rolling Stone”...
Real-Life Inspiration for Mary Poppins Revealed
Australian-British novelist P. L. Travers wrote about her great-aunt Ellie who inspired the beloved...
New Anthology of WWI Poetry Features an Embittered Robert Graves
The Imperial War Museum in London is publishing a new anthology of World War I poetry in June...
The McSweeney’s Archive is Open!
The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin announced earlier this week that the...
Harry Ransom Center Purchases Ian McEwan Archive for $2m
The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin purchased the archive of British...
The Boat from the Sea of Cortez
In 1940, John Steinbeck and his marine biologist friend, Ed Ricketts, chartered a wooden fishing...
Shakespeare’s Dictionary Found?!
Two New York rare booksellers claim to have purchased–on Ebay, no less–an annotated...
Real-Life Inspiration for Hercule Poirot?
Agatha Christie fans have long puzzled over the existence of a real-life inspiration for Hercule...