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A first-of-its-kind, bilingual exhibition at the NYPL will showcase Puerto Rican life and culture…
V&A East Storehouse opens its doors on September 13 to the David Bowie Centre and the singer's…
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A copy of 1939's Detective Comics No. 27 featuring the first appearance of Batman sold for $1.74 million at Heritage Auction's latest Comics & Comic Art sale. Graded Fine 6.0 by Certified Guaranty Company, it ties the auction record set in May 2022 when a higher-graded copy realized the…
Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria’s reign, Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) inspired numerous artistic interpretations, most notably from the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood who considered him one of their ‘immortals’.
The British Library has reported on its Gender Pay Gap for the sixth year of what is now an annual cycle of reporting. As an employer with over 250 staff, the Library is required by law to carry out Gender Pay reporting under the Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap) Regulations 2017.
The archive of the English poet, journalist and literary critic James Fenton is heading to the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin.
Fenton’s body of work traces the political upheavals of our time, including the regime of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the suppression of…
Arthur Ransome fans will gather in the Lake District this summer for a marathon reading of Swallowdale, one of the adventures in the Swallows and the Amazons series.
The event will take place over the June 24/25 weekend at the Windermere Jetty Museum and devotees of the children’s story of all…
The Raab Collection has unveiled two powerful and revealing Ernest Hemingway letters that touch upon writing, life, filming The Old Man and the Sea, fishing, travel, and, perhaps most importantly, death and the afterlife, including his near-death experience in two airplane crashes. They also shed…
To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the publication of the First Folio, London rare bookseller Peter Harrington has announced a landmark offering of copies of each of the four Folios as well as a first collected edition of Shakespeare’s Poems. This is a rare occasion for a single collector to…
John Speed's market-fresh copy of the first world atlas compiled by an Englishman sold for £33,750 ($41,580) at Chiswick Auctions. Speed’s A Prospect of the most famous Parts of the World bound together with The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine had come for sale by family…
A new exhibition at Charles Dickens’s London home - A Great and Dirty City: Dickens and the London Fog - looks at how the author used fog as a regular and imposing motif in his works. As well as a major inspiration to Dickens, it was also a personal health hazard, intensifying the asthma from…
Arion Press's new King Artist in Residency is a new book arts initiative in honor of the Grabhorn Institute’s late board chair Kevin King. The King Residency will bring visual artists to Arion’s historic facility to create and conceive book and print projects alongside the Press’s team of expert…
