Tag Archives: Manuscripts

The New York Times 2:00 pm on September 24, 2021
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He Taught Ancient Texts at Oxford. Now He Is Accused of Stealing Some.

Hobby Lobby, the craft chain that helped build a collection for the Museum of the Bible, has sued a former Oxford lecturer, asserting he sold it stolen artifacts.

#bible, #collectors-and-collections, #colleges-and-universities, #egypt-exploration-society-nonprofit, #frauds-and-swindling, #hobby-lobby-stores-inc, #libraries-and-librarians, #manuscripts, #museum-of-the-bible, #museums, #obbink-dirk-a, #oxford-england, #oxford-university, #oxyrhynchus-papyri, #robberies-and-thefts, #sackler-library, #suits-and-litigation-civil

The New York Times 5:29 pm on June 17, 2021
Tags: , , , Bronte, Anne, , Burns, Robert P, , Friends of the National Libraries (Nonprofit), , , Manuscripts, , Scott, Walter (1771-1832),   

Consortium Aims to Save the Honresfield Library

Sotheby’s has agreed to postpone a highly anticipated auction as a consortium tries to raise $21 million to acquire a “lost” private library for the British public.

#archives-and-records, #auctions, #books-and-literature, #bronte-anne, #bronte-emily, #burns-robert-p, #collectors-and-collections, #friends-of-the-national-libraries-nonprofit, #great-britain, #libraries-and-librarians, #manuscripts, #museums, #scott-walter-1771-1832, #sothebys

The New York Times 9:00 am on June 4, 2021
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What Happens to Philip Roth’s Legacy Now?

His single authorized biography is mired in controversy. Scholars say it shouldn’t be the last word, but they are struggling for access to his vast and in some cases inaccessible private archives.

#archives-and-records, #bailey-blake, #books-and-literature, #content-type-personal-profile, #libraries-and-librarians, #library-of-congress, #manuscripts, #nadel-ira-b, #newark-public-library, #norton-w-wco, #philip-roth-the-biography-book, #princeton-university, #research, #roth-philip, #sexual-harassment, #skyhorse-publishing, #wills-and-estates, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 5:49 pm on May 27, 2021
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Yes, Steinbeck Wrote a Werewolf Novel. Don’t Expect to Read It.

A scholar of American literature at Stanford says it’s worth publishing. The agents representing the Steinbeck estate strongly disagree.

#books-and-literature, #manuscripts, #occult-sciences, #ransom-harry-center-the-university-of-texas-at-austin, #souder-william, #stanford-university, #steinbeck-john, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 3:35 pm on April 14, 2021
Tags: , , , , Library of America, Manuscripts, Native Son (Book), , Wright, Julia (1942- ), ,   

Decades After His Death, Richard Wright Has a New Book Out

“The Man Who Lived Underground,” a novel publishers rejected in the 1940s, is about an innocent Black man forced to confess to the murder of a white couple.

#black-people, #book-trade-and-publishing, #books-and-literature, #content-type-personal-profile, #library-of-america, #manuscripts, #native-son-book, #the-man-who-lived-underground-book, #wright-julia-1942, #wright-richard, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 11:45 am on March 16, 2021
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Israel Reveals Newly Discovered Fragments of Dead Sea Scrolls

The finds, ranging from just a few millimeters to a thumbnail in size, are the first to be unearthed in archaeological excavations in the Judean Desert in about 60 years.

#dead-sea-scrolls, #israel, #israel-museum, #jews-and-judaism, #manuscripts

The New York Times 7:49 pm on February 19, 2021
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Auction House Suspends Sale of 19th-Century Jewish Burial Records

The records of a Jewish community in Romania that was almost annihilated during the Holocaust are viewed as essential to reconstructing its history.

#archives-and-records, #arts-and-antiquities-looting, #auctions, #auschwitz-concentration-camp, #brooklyn-nyc, #cluj-napoca-romania, #eastern-europe, #holocaust-and-the-nazi-era, #jews-and-judaism, #kestenbaumco, #manuscripts, #oradea-romania, #romania, #world-jewish-restitution-organization

The New York Times 12:44 pm on September 23, 2020
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White House Accused of Intervening to Keep Bolton’s Book From Becoming Public

A career official said political appointees “commandeered” the prepublication review process.

#bolton-john-r, #books-and-literature, #classified-information-and-state-secrets, #justice-department, #knight-ellen, #manuscripts, #national-archives-and-records-administration, #national-security-council, #the-room-where-it-happened-a-white-house-memoir-book, #trump-ukraine-whistle-blower-complaint-and-impeachment-inquiry, #trump-donald-j, #united-states-politics-and-government

The New York Times 3:43 am on June 19, 2020
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Targeting Bolton, Justice Dept. Again in Alignment With Trump’s Desires

Its request for an order blocking the publication of the former official’s memoir is the latest in a series of acts by the department to shield the president’s friends or pursue his critics.

#barr-william-p, #bolton-john-r, #books-and-literature, #classified-information-and-state-secrets, #cooper-charles-j, #justice-department, #manuscripts, #national-security-council, #suits-and-litigation-civil, #the-room-where-it-happened-a-white-house-memoir-book, #trump-donald-j, #united-states-politics-and-government

The New York Times 1:43 am on June 15, 2020
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The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals

Two major study retractions in one month have left researchers wondering if the peer review process is broken.

#academic-and-scientific-journals, #brigham-and-womens-hospital, #coronavirus-2019-ncov, #coronavirus-reopenings, #desai-sapan, #drugs-pharmaceuticals, #frauds-and-swindling, #harvard-university, #hydroxychloroquine-drug, #lancet-the-journal, #manuscripts, #new-england-journal-of-medicine, #science-and-technology, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 9:00 am on April 28, 2020
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Coming Soon: New Fiction From Simone de Beauvoir

“The Inseparables,” a novel Beauvoir abandoned in 1954, tells the story of a doomed friendship based on one from her own childhood.

#beauvoir-simone-de, #books-and-literature, #manuscripts, #the-inseparables-book, #women-and-girls, #writing-and-writers