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I'm reading a book called How to live, or, a life of Montaigne: in one question and twenty attempts at an answer . Its author, Sarah Ba...

A Facebook friend recently put this in his status box: "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will...

In the 1890s, American printers produced some excellent color advertising. This ad for Newsboy Cigars was printed in 1894 by the Calvert Li...

I like verse anthologies. I generally read them through, skimming over entries that don't grab my attention, but also trying to read wi...

I read a blog called Miscellanea by Gloria Origgi . She's an Italian intellectual who teaches philosophy in Paris. Origgi writes her ...

In turn-of-the-century NYC the Sunday supplements weren't just devoted to graphic stories and comics.[1] The visual, literary, and perf...

One of the first and most popular uses of color printing was in the comics pages. The San Francisco Examiner is credited with publishing th...