Inspired by the massive success of our recent Knight v Snail post, we thought it might be interesting to have a look at some other tropes of medieval art which feature in many of our manuscripts. One such is that of the Three Living and the Three Dead. Miniature of...
I throw myself on your mercy, readers. For some years now, I have been searching fruitlessly for a long-lost book, and I’m hoping someone out there can help me remember the title. The problem is, I have very little to go on: I know it is a paperback career romance from the late fifties or […]
Inspired by the massive success of our recent Knight v Snail post, we thought it might be interesting to have a look at some other tropes of medieval art which feature in many of our manuscripts. One such is that of the Three Living and the Three Dead. Miniature of...
Davis, University of California, Davis, Shields Library, Special Collections, UCD BX2080 A2 1497, detail of f. 70r (vigil of the Office of the Dead, possibly retouched). Book of Hours, use of Rome....
From the Brontë sisters to J.K. Rowling, we profile extraordinary female writers who have written under male pen names.
The dankest prepper memes on the internet in one spot. If it's a meme related to prepping or survival, we've got it in our library...
Mary Kelly and Holly Hibner are public librarians in Michigan who've spent years behind the reference desk. They've put together quite an amusing website
My Zombie Hamster, by Havelock McCreely.
Scarfolk is a town in North West England that did not progress beyond 1979. Instead, the entire decade of the 1970s loops ad infinitum. Here in Scarfolk, pagan rituals blend seamlessly with science; hauntology is a compulsory subject at school, and everyone must be in bed by 8pm because they are perpetually running a slight fever. "Visit Scarfolk today. Our number one priority is keeping rabies at bay." For more information please reread.
You can see this comic in print in this Sunday's NY Times Book Review! Meanwhile, the finalists for the National Book Award can be found here (I'm pulling for Junot Diaz).
Bor Boskin After we slew the zombies once and for all we set out north along the road through the Fields. It was as long trudge, with a cool drizzle coming down and the sky filled with clouds. The…
Gerda Wegener e Einar Lili Elbe la vita, l'arte della pittrice danese e suo marito, primo transessuale della storia, protagonisti del film The Danish Girl
