Ms. Romney is an established seller known to “Pawn Stars” fans as the show’s rare books expert. But at 37, she represents a broad and growing cohort of young collectors who are coming to the trade from many walks of life; just across the aisle, Luke Pascal, a 30-year-old former restaurateur, was presiding over a case of letters by Abraham Lincoln and George Washington.
Michael F. Suarez, the director of the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia, said that these days, his students are skewing younger and less male than a decade ago, with nearly one-third attending on full scholarships.
Beneath our feet is an ecosystem so astonishing that it tests the limits of our imagination. It’s as diverse as a rainforest or a coral reef. We depend on it for 99% of our food, yet we scarcely know it. Soil.
Under one square metre of undisturbed ground in the Earth’s mid-latitudes (which include the UK) there might live several hundred thousand small animals. Roughly 90% of the species to which they belong have yet to be named. One gram of this soil – less than a teaspoonful – contains around a kilometre of fungal filaments.
Ada Limón is a professional poet: She does not support herself with a teaching position, has no day job or independent wealth. She is a poet who makes a living off her poetry.
She recognizes this makes her something of a unicorn.
As stimulating as it is to consider a Vancouver shaken and splintered in 45 seconds or partake in the thought experiment of how you might react in a catastrophe, the novel’s core is not what the disaster looks like — smoke, fires, thousands dead, an “orgy of annihilation.” It’s the human story — Anna, Joe, Kyle, Dodie and the Stedmans. Suffice it to say disaster does not bring out everyone’s best. Peck also factors in the whims of fate: Not a soul emerges unscathed in this intense and absorbing drama.
In most accounts of the fight against Nazi Germany, the Americans and the British get to be the good guys. But in “The Newspaper Axis,” Kathryn S. Olmsted levels a damning indictment against six of the most powerful English-language publishers of the World War II era. Although they claimed to be patriots, they used their influence to downplay, condone and sometimes even promote Adolf Hitler’s rise.
At the tone, the time will be that night
when the glass glowed before the sound came,
the moment recorded itself and outside
there were reeds at the winter’s edge,