Books

Opponents of Oliver Cromwell published his family recipes, with a side of fake news.

And the "gentleman" doctors who made them.

Walter Scott wrote fantasies about medieval Saxons—just the thing for Jazz Age Angelenos.

It is an artifact of devotion, wealth, and empire.

For decades, often using a fake identity, he stole antique maps worth thousands of dollars each.

A new global census doubles the number of known copies of the scientist's treatise on gravity and more.

A four-person team translates Italian, French, and English comics into a language spoken by 70 million people.

You can now hold Mr. Darcy's dispatches in your hands.

'The Papalagi'—supposedly written by a Samoan chief in 1920—offered a societal critique, but carried on a problematic racial trope.

The 150 retro recipes inside offer a taste of the past.

An investigation.

The bookwheel helps readers browse eight texts at once. The only problem? It weighs 600 pounds.

Maintaining an aging offshore platform is no easy task.