May 31, 2018
I suppose I should describe my great aunt’s cottage, for it will give you an idea of the quaintness of Laurel Grove. The door in the pebble-dashed face of the cottage is...
May 7, 2018
Joel Baden (Professor of Hebrew Bible, Yale Divinity School)
In November 2017, the massive new Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. opened its doors. These...
April 16, 2018
Interlogue
“How do you do it, Clarice?”
“How do I do what, dear?”
“Decide what to write. I see you forever scratching away in those notebooks of yours, and I think to...
March 31, 2018
Seeing the Gutenberg Bible and The Birds of America[i]
--Nancy Kuhl, Curator of Poetry, Yale Collection of American Literature
Separated by nearly 400 years,...
March 19, 2018
After a short scuffle over whether they should take the High Street or follow Chestnut Lane to the bypass, Claude and Clarice set out to see the famous Gutenberg Bible. The...
February 22, 2018
Claude Appleyard lit his pipe and sank a little more deeply into his favorite leather armchair. He puffed a bored smoke ring – and then another – and looked over at Clarice....
I.
On February 15, 1926, the Philadelphia bookseller A.S.W. Rosenbach bought the Melk abbey copy of the Gutenberg Bible at auction at Anderson Galleries in New York City....
