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All Ideas Are Second-Hand: Mark Twain’s Magnificent Letter to Helen Keller About the Myth of Originality

All Ideas Are Second-Hand: Mark Twain’s Magnificent Letter to Helen Keller About the Myth of Originality

“The kernel, the soul — let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances — is plagiarism.”

Graphing Jane Austen: Using Science to Extrapolate the Human Condition from Classical Literature

Graphing Jane Austen: Using Science to Extrapolate the Human Condition from Classical Literature

What literary Darwinism reveals about universal values.

Her Idea: An Illustrated Allegory about Procrastination and the Creative Process

Her Idea: An Illustrated Allegory about Procrastination and the Creative Process

A charming all-ages picture book about the endless dance between idea and execution.

Maurice Sendak’s Unreleased Drawings and Intaglio Prints

Maurice Sendak’s Unreleased Drawings and Intaglio Prints

What an American printmaker has to do with Mozart.

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