At Pazzo Books, the shop my brother Brian and I keep in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, I’ve learned that old books are funny things. Often...

“The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty...

Dubbed the “Striptease Intellectual” by the American Mercury, GYPSY ROSE LEE (1911-70) wowed the boys with her witty chatter as she removed all but...

NICHOLSON BAKER (born 1957) was not the first novelist to create an entire narrative out of the smallest of events, but his 1988 debut,...

A prehistoric track stretches across 250 miles from the Dorset coast to the Norfolk Wash. For over five thousand years, people have walked or...

This image comes from the sad, strange book children’s book The Dead Bird, by Good Night Moon author Margaret Wise Brown and Remy Charlip...

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“One may be strong intellectually and socially idiotic, as distinctly represented by this head and face.” *** According to Louis Allen Vaught, the purpose...