Writers & Libraries

  Alan Yuhas, Yale Says Its Vinland Map, Once Called a Medieval Treasure, is Fake, New York Times,  Sept. 30, 2021. https://www.nytimes.com/...

 Rebecca Mead. "Invasive Species"  New Yorker July 2021, pp. 20-24. In the late nineteen-eighties, Finnish researchers, led by a z...

Rivka Galchen. "Wartime for Wodehouse," New Yorker . 6/1/2020 p. 60-63. The Entry for November 14th begins, "I must make a...

"Fresh Litter," (Talk of the Town), New Yorker , December 23, 2019, pp. 31-32. The source material "Old Possum's Book o...

Susan Orlean, The Library Book , 2018. The story of the Los Angeles Public Library and the 1986 fire required years of researc...

Meryl Gordon, "Shelf Life: The Story of One of the Rarest Books in the World." New York Times Book Review , May 5, 2019, p.18. ...

"400-Year-Old Stolen Bible is Recovered," (Odd News), Salt Lake Tribune , April 26, 2019, p. A2. A 17th Century Geneva Bible, o...

Tammy La Gorce, "He didn't Just Like Her Profile Photo. He Understood It," New York Times , April 14, 2019, ST11.      In p...

Jane Halpern, " A Night at the Museum: How a French Cat Burglar Pulled Off he Biggest Art Heist in Decades,"  New Yorker , Jan 14,...

Sam Knight, "Hidden Traces: How Historical Manuscripts are Giving Up Their Secrets" (Annals of Science), New Yorker ,  November 26...

Tina Jordan, "Inside the List," New York Times Book Review , Oct. 7, 2018, p. 24.      In the summer of 1994, not long after fin...

Nell Stevens, “Losing the Fiance but Winning the Honeymoon,” New York Times August 5, 2018, p. ST5. In the preceding months, I had b...

J.K. Rawlings. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone . Bloomsbury, 1997. They had indeed been searching books for Flamel...