Charleston Diner on Election Day: Missouri Turnout, Arizona Patience
by I was told the results might take a day or two, and the diner told me the pie would take longer. CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Bohiney) …
Boston Archive Hours, a Fed Rate Hold and 21 Million Early Votes
The only body that changed its mind all day was the radiator in the reading room. BOSTON, Massachusetts (Bohiney) – The reading room at the …
Swift’s Own Annotated Copy: Armagh Robinson Library’s Gulliver’s Travels at 300, Open 10 July to 24 December 2026
A smaller exhibition in Northern Ireland, with a large-paper first edition marked up in the author’s own hand Swift’s Own Annotated Copy: Armagh Robinson Library’s …
Early Voting Has Begun in 18 States, 435 House Seats Are Up and a Live Blog With a Point of View: The 3 November Midterms, Read With Care
The Washington Examiner’s live blog of 25 October, which is a right-leaning outlet, read by a diarist who flags every angle Early Voting Has Begun …
Common Sense at 250: Four Editions, 58 in the Collection and a British Printing That Left Out the Rude Bits About the King
The University of Michigan’s student-curated Revolutionary Paine exhibition, which ran to 8 May 2026, as two outlets described it Common Sense at 250: Four Editions, …
Phillis Wheatley at 250: The 1773 Book, a First Portrait and a UW-Madison Collaboration That Follows Her Poems Through Two and a Half Centuries
Fine Books Magazine on a display marking 250 years of Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, with all the gaps the page leaves Phillis …
Gulliver’s Travels Turns 300 on 28 October: Trinity’s Long Room Exhibition, a Lone 1761 Dublin Abridgement and a Free Talk on Satire and Power
A diarist of eighteenth-century literature marks the tercentenary of a book about tiny people, large egos and a very long argument Gulliver’s Travels Turns 300 …
Gulliver Would Recognise A War Over Diesel
A Philadelphia scholar of eighteenth-century literature reads about Washington slowing Ukraine’s drones and finds Jonathan Swift wrote the briefing in 1726 Saturday, 17 October 2026. …
Thomas Paine Has Some Notes On NOTYET
A Philadelphia scholar reads about Prince William’s three number plates and opens Common Sense, which said everything necessary about hereditary succession in 1776 Friday, 23 …
The Spectator Of 1711 Would Have Hired The Polite Chatbot
A Philadelphia scholar of eighteenth-century literature reads about Piers Morgan’s war on courteous AI and remembers Addison and Steele’s campaign for polite conversation Wednesday, 21 …