“A sundial for sounding the hours,” from Athanasius Kircher’s Ars magna lucis et umbrae (Rome, 1646) (courtesy Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology) On Time: The Quest for Precision ...

Ifeanyi Menkiti became, in April 2006, the man who saved poetry — or at the very least, he rescued one of its most revered institutions in this country by purchasing the Grolier Poetry Book Shop, ...

The potent, diminutive Grolier Poetry Book Shop in Harvard Square is the subject of a tender new documentary directed by Weiying “Olivia’’ Huang and Mengyuan Lin, which will screen as part of the ...

This spring, a new exhibition at The Grolier Club explores the formation of Irish identity through the Irish Literary Revival of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the parallel political quest ...

A couple of years ago, Egyptian archaeologists excavating a necropolis south of Cairo discovered a papyrus marked with ancient Greek. Analysis eventually showed it bore Euripides’s Ino and Polyidos, ...

“Judging a Book by its Cover” is the latest exhibition from Manhattan’s Grolier Club, a private members club and society for book lovers in New York. It was founded in 1884 and is the oldest ...

This is a featured article from Pauline and Paul of the New York City Museum-a-thon, a couple transplanted to New York from the West Coast who have made it their goal to visit ALL 180 museums of New ...

Alonzo E. Foringer, “Standing female with wheat and scythe” (1927), oil on canvas, signed “A. E. Foringer. N. Y. C.,” 30 x 30 inches, created for American Bank Note Company (courtesy Grolier Club) ...

Tucked away on the quiet Plympton Street in Harvard Square, Grolier Poetry Book Shop, founded in 1927, is the nation’s longest-standing all-poetry bookstore. Today, however, its future is uncertain.

“One of the things that this exhibition does very importantly is to remind us of the vast range of places Jews have lived and made their homes and learned from the local cultures,” David Kraemer said.