As Celia Fremlin told it three decades after the fact, The Hours Before Dawn was written at night. Lurching around Hampstead Heath behind a stroller that ...
Leah Price
Leah Price is Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English at Harvard University and the author of How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain (2012) and The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel (2000). Price writes on new and old media for the New York Times Book Review, London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, San Francisco Chronicle, and Boston Globe. A recipient of the Harvard College teaching prize, she has recently completed, together with colleagues in history and art history, a MOOC on the history of the book. 
Last Offices
Wondering how your life has changed over the past two decades? Just rummage through your email for old autoresponds. “Out of office” referred to unlucky politicians until the 1970s, when UNIX began ...
Books On Books
You need a birthday present, let’s say for your cousin’s boyfriend. You’re bad at guessing shirt sizes, so it might as well be a book. You find a bookstore (if you’re lucky). You make for the section ...