Books and the Year
There are books that remain perpetually of the moment in every year in their different ways – The Bhagavad Gita, William Faulkner's As I Lay ...
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A font too friendly for words...
At the end of a long day, I joined other members of the production team, for a spot of clubbing – Galley Clubbing to be exact. ...
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On the trail of photographs, ancient and modern
An odd side-effect of being an editor at Folio is our garnering of incidental obsessions. We work, solely, on wonderful books, so this is hardly ...
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An Interview with the Balbusso sisters.
Forthcoming publications are keeping the Production team busy, and a particular favourite this month is The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood – a book that cried ...
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Battle of the Books?
[caption id="attachment_19" align="alignright" width="150" caption="V.S. Pritchett"][/caption] The alleged e-books versus traditional printed matter debate looks set to run and run and the point ...
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Reproducing Songs of Innocence and of Experience from the finest copy
Folio’s edition of Songs of Innocence and of Experience is reproduced from one of the finest surviving copies, known as ‘Copy W’, now held at King’s College, University of Cambridge. In this blog, Folio’s Production Director Kate Grimwade explains how she matched our edition as closely as possible to Blake’s original manuscript.
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‘These illustrations look like the inside of my own head’
In this blog, Becky Chambers, author of The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, shares her reaction to seeing some of Zoë van Dijk’s vivid illustrations for the Folio edition of her incredible novel.
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Which Marvel Hero would you invite for the holidays?
Depending on your family traditions and the extent of your invites, festive dinners can either be a raucous free-for-all or a calm culinary extravaganza. But whatever the scene, every dining table would be livened up with a Marvel Super Hero. From extraordinary strength to healing potions and a magic hammer, scroll down to discover who could be tucking into turkey at your house this year.