“Judging a Book by its Cover” is the latest exhibition from Manhattan’s Grolier Club, a private members club and society for book lovers in New York. It was founded in 1884 and is the oldest ...

The book is about to close on the nation’s oldest all-poetry store, as the Grolier Poetry Book Shop is forced under by competition from chain bookstores and the Internet. First opened in 1927, the ...

“A sundial for sounding the hours,” from Athanasius Kircher’s Ars magna lucis et umbrae (Rome, 1646) (courtesy Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology) On Time: The Quest for Precision ...

This is a featured article from Pauline and Paul of the New York City Museum-a-thon, a couple transplanted to New York from the West Coast who have made it their goal to visit ALL 180 museums of New ...

Founded in 1884, the Grolier Club is a private club dedicated to the book arts. While candidates for membership must be nominated and meet certain criteria in order to join the “private bibliophile ...

The Grolier Club, a hidden gem on New York’s Upper East Side, serves as a world-class destination and private club for bibliophiles. Founded in 1884, it is one of the world’s most important societies ...

Behind a creaky door lies nearly a century of poetic history: The Grolier Poetry Book Shop has been an integral part of the Harvard Square community since 1927, making it the oldest continuously-run ...

The potent, diminutive Grolier Poetry Book Shop in Harvard Square is the subject of a tender new documentary directed by Weiying “Olivia’’ Huang and Mengyuan Lin, which will screen as part of the ...

Ifeanyi Menkiti became, in April 2006, the man who saved poetry — or at the very least, he rescued one of its most revered institutions in this country by purchasing the Grolier Poetry Book Shop, ...

The Maya were, at their height, one of the world’s great civilisations. In the “classic” period, from AD 250–900, Maya cities with monumental architecture and huge populations spread across a large ...

A collection of indelible photographs, maps and “intimate guides” from 1807 to 1940 went beyond extolling the virtues of the city. By Sam Roberts An exhibition of what-ifs, designed to be seen, not ...