Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey was written in an unusual way—hand in hand with the film it accompanies. Beginning in 1964 from Clarke’s 1948 short story “The Sentinel,” Clarke and director Stanley Kubrick…
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First published in 1965, Frank Herbert’s Dune is the best-selling science fiction novel ever written and the first to win both the Hugo and the Nebula awards. Set on the arid planet Arrakis, the only…
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Books from the library of Alexander Hamilton are scarce, and those signed by both Hamilton and his eldest son, Philip, are scarcer still. Both father and son died of wounds received in a duel—Philip in…
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The Jurassic Park logo, a black Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton set within a red-orange roundel, is one of the most recognizable images in film. Fewer people know that it did not begin in a Hollywood art…
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Today marks the birthday of Ernest Hemingway – born July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois. His career reshaped modern prose, and his life unfolded across continents and decades. Over the years, we have handled…
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Nearly three thousand years after they were first composed, the Iliad and the Odyssey remain the foundation stones of Western literature. Homer’s epics gave us the wrath of Achilles and the long homeward voyage of…
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