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January 2013

The culture of the copy

by James Panero

On the printing press, the Internet & the impact of duplication.

May 2010

Little modern magazines

by Denis Donoghue

Questioning the wisdom of The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, Volume 1: Britain and Ireland 1880–1955, edited by Peter Brooker and Andrew Thacker.

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June 1984

The art inside the book

by Creighton Gilbert

On “Renaissance Painting in Manuscripts: Treasures from the British Library” at the Morgan Library.

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