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ONE OF THE MORE disturbing newsreels of the early twentieth century--now, like the Zapruder film, easily found on the Web-shows Emily Davison, a militant English suffragist maddened by the injustices [...]

How--without feeling as addled as its hero--to try to say something new about Don Quixote? About the work once singled out by the Nobel Institute as the greatest novel of [...]

Caxton and Gutenberg are no doubt levitating in their crypts. With desktop publishing, personal Web Doges, and hundreds of free digital fonts available on the Internet, writers of all sorts [...]

Olivia, by Dorothy Strachey (1949). A febrile little tale of student-teacher sapphism at a posh French boarding school in the 1880s. When Mademoiselle Julie, the glamorous headmistress of Les Avons, [...]

Collected Poems and Selected Prose, by Charlotte Mew (1981). The melancholic Mew (1869-1928) is now mostly forgotten (she killed herself out of loneliness at fifty-eight--appallingly--by ingesting creosote). Female fans have [...]

Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by T. E. Lawrence (1926). I have yet to meet a female contemporary who has read this book--perhaps because Lawrence writes mainly about bone-jarring camel rides, [...]

Create and Be Recognized: Photography on the Edge, by John Turner and Deborah Klochko (2004). The title scrawled by the outsider artist Howard Finster (1916-2001) on one of his loopy, [...]