The celebrated Indian novelist, Amitav Ghosh, known for his sweeping explorations of empire, migration, and climate, has ...

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X-ray scans recover an ancient Greek star map beneath a medieval text, revealing Aquarius clues and Hipparchus-linked ...

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An exhibition called "Paws on Parchment" tracks how cats were depicted in the Middle Ages through texts and artworks from around the world—including one example of a 15th-century "keyboard cat" ...

From her house up high in Colorado’s Elk Mountains, author Shelley Read can only look out in amazement at the worldwide success of her debut novel, “Go as a River.” Published in 2023 by Spiegel & Grau ...

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The Voynich manuscript—a mysterious medieval book that has defied translation for centuries—may have been created using a special code developed with the help of cards and dice, a new study suggests.

Ankur Warikoo has sold more than a million books and earned crores in royalties by rethinking what authorship looks like today. By transforming years of digital content into books through close ...

True Origin™ provides authors with independent, verifiable documentation showing when their work existed—before it’s ...

William Sanders Scarborough was an African-American ex-slave who authored a Greek textbook. His First Lessons in Greek ...