Emily Grant Hutchings was born on January 30, 1870 in Hannibal, Missouri to Carl Schmidt […]
Peter Hicks – Napoleon’s “Englich” Lessons
Napoleon had had a rollercoaster eighteen months. First he had been forced to abdicate as […]
Ogawa Kazumasa’s Hand-Coloured Photographs of Flowers (1896)
Collotype is a dichromate-based photographic process invented by Alphonse Poitevin in 1855,[1][2] from which beautiful tonal images can be reproduced without the […]
Leo Robson – The unruly Genius of Joyce Carol Oates
In an era that fetishizes form, Oates has become America’s preëminent fiction writer by doing everything […]