Archive Diary: Early Voting in Eighteen States, 435 House Seats and a Letter to the Printer
by Reading a long midterm season with care, writing to the printer in the manner of Williamsburg and finding rest among rare breeds Wednesday, The Midterm …
Archive Diary: Phillis Wheatley at Two Hundred and Fifty, a Portrait, a Book Club and the Texas Turnout
How one poet’s 1773 volume still invites new readers, a post-election book club and the dairy pages that offer a calmer ledger Sunday, A Volume …
Philadelphia Gains an Hour, the Senate Gains Nothing
Sunday gave me sixty extra minutes and a thermostat with a different opinion about all of them. PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (Bohiney) – The clocks went back …
New Haven Book Club After the Vote: Texas Turnout, Ann Arbor Utility
The book club ran four hours over, which for a group reading a 700-page novel counts as punctual. NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (Bohiney) – The morning …
Williamsburg Letter to the Printer on 20,000 California Ballots
I wrote to the editor in the old manner and the editor, an empty tearoom, did not reply. WILLIAMSBURG, Virginia (Bohiney) – There is a …
Charleston Diner on Election Day: Missouri Turnout, Arizona Patience
I was told the results might take a day or two, and the diner told me the pie would take longer. CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Bohiney) …
Boston Archive Hours, a Fed Rate Hold and 21 Million Early Votes
The only body that changed its mind all day was the radiator in the reading room. BOSTON, Massachusetts (Bohiney) – The reading room at the …
Swift’s Own Annotated Copy: Armagh Robinson Library’s Gulliver’s Travels at 300, Open 10 July to 24 December 2026
A smaller exhibition in Northern Ireland, with a large-paper first edition marked up in the author’s own hand Swift’s Own Annotated Copy: Armagh Robinson Library’s …
Early Voting Has Begun in 18 States, 435 House Seats Are Up and a Live Blog With a Point of View: The 3 November Midterms, Read With Care
The Washington Examiner’s live blog of 25 October, which is a right-leaning outlet, read by a diarist who flags every angle Early Voting Has Begun …
Common Sense at 250: Four Editions, 58 in the Collection and a British Printing That Left Out the Rude Bits About the King
The University of Michigan’s student-curated Revolutionary Paine exhibition, which ran to 8 May 2026, as two outlets described it Common Sense at 250: Four Editions, …