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Personal Reasons: On Mai-mai Sze’s Motivations for Reading and Annotating

By guest contributor Erin Schreiner In studying annotations, we think of ourselves as entering into an otherwise impenetrable space: the

by guest contributor Erin Schreiner In the spring of 1989, Mai-mai Sze (1909-1992) and her partner Irene Sharaff (1910-1993) were

by guest contributor Richard Calis For those who care to look closely enough, the world of early modern philology has

By guest contributor Devani Singh Amongst the incunabula or “cradle books” – those produced before 1500, in the infancy of

by guest contributor Frederic Clark Adam Winthrop died in 1623—seven years before his son John would board the Arbella and

by guest contributor Frederic Clark The history of reading has recently witnessed an explosion of interest, doing much to transform