EditorialRobert Plunket signs copies of his reissued 1983 novel, “My Search for Warren Harding,” in New York, June 14, 2023. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)
EditorialRobert Plunket signs copies of his reissued 1983 novel, “My Search for Warren Harding,” in New York, June 14, 2023. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)
EditorialJ. J. Grandville, 'The Tiger entered stealthily, the dagger in his hand' from Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals, Scenes de la Vie Priv?e et Publique des Animaux, J. J. Grandville (French, Nancy 18031847 Vanves), Pierre Fran?ois Godard ...
EditorialPsalm 34; dog stalking a goose. Luttrell Psalter. England [East Anglia]; circa 1325-1335. Whole folio. Psalm 34. Border decoration with three animal grotesques, including a fish with a frill. In the lower margin, a man in a wide-brimmed hat, a hunting ...
EditorialA crocodile stealthily approaching a beehive. Minerva Britanna, or a Garden of Heroical Devises, furnished and adorned with Emblemes and Impresa’s of sundry natures, newly devised, moralized and published. [In verse.]. Wa: Dight: London, 1612. Source...
EditorialCharles Dickens, from a recent daguerreotype by Mayall, 1 December, 1855. . Memoir of Charles Dickens. . The lives of men of genius when happy, are ordinarily uneventful. It may, perhaps, be one of the reaspms for the paucity of materials available for...
EditorialA woman tries to pin down a snake with a long stick, while others watch. The woman in the centre is possibly an aristocrat or princess judging by her fine clothes. The older woman at right clasps her hands to her mouth in her anxiety. A cat moves ste...