In 1966, William F. Buckley published a memoir about his quixotic run for mayor of New York the previous year. Among the people to whom he gave the book as a gift was his sometimes friendly, sometimes ...

Almost all books come with indexes in the back. These sections identify the most frequently-used words in the book, and list the pages those words appear on. Authors (generally) do not create these ...

Dennis Duncan’s entertaining and informative “Index, A History of the” moves from the 13th-century origins of the form to the world of digital search engines. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an ...

Host Scott Tong speaks with Dennis Duncan, author of "Index, a History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age." The new book explores the development of those things ...

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EVERY once in a while a book comes along to remind us that the idea of the internet isn’t new. Authors like Siegfried Zielinski and Jussi Parikka have written handsomely about their adventures in ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Margalit Fox INDEX, A HISTORY OF THE A Bookish Adventure From Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital ...

Duncan (coeditor, Book Parts), a lecturer in English at University College London, mixes humor and scholarship to brilliant effect in this accessible deep dive into the history of indexes. Contending ...

Dinah Tronu, who runs Hawsey's Book Index in Warrington with her sister, said her favorite book is the Bible. For a while, she thought she was named after the tragic Dinah in the Old Testament. "She ...

Pensacola resident Brenda Rogers made her way into Hawsey's Book Index on Wednesday with her tiny little notebook handy. Rogers, 76, bustled into the west side bookstore with purpose, minutes after ...