Now available for institutions and individuals, the new digital archive of Cornucopia offers a modern archive consisting of fifteen vast and informative back issues going back to 2011.
Beautiful enough to be a coffee-table book, authoritative enough to satisfy scholars, and always a treat to read, for almost three decades Cornucopia has been the magazine for connoisseurs of Turkey — and for anyone who would like to delve deeper into the … Keep Reading
Ebony with its sister publication Jet were the pre-eminent popular magazines of American black culture. They were founded and owned by the Johnson Publishing company of Chicago but in recent years have foundered with falling circulation and a difficulty in transitioning to a digital or multi-media strategy. The Johnson Publishing company filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in April and put all its assets up for sale.
The good-news side of this sad story is that among the assets was … Keep Reading
It’s that time again; time to grill one of our prized publishers about everything magazine-related.
Today it’s the turn of Mike Sims from The Poetry Society, publishers of The Poetry Review. The quarterly has been home to the best contemporary poetry and writing about poetry since 1912, featuring work by internationally renowned and emerging poets, both Nobel Prize winners and newcomers.
For all the latest news, you can follow Mike (@abosimian) and The Poetry Society (@PoetrySociety) on … Keep Reading
We are delighted to introduce a new feature to the Exact Editions platform.
The Title Showcase — http://www.exacteditions.com/titleshowcase
The showcase is a rotating carousel of free content that will be updated weekly. Each week we will select one archived issue from a selection of magazines and this will be visible to anyone who has the access link above.
Readers can use this feature to preview a variety of magazines, explore archives and test the functionality of the platform. For publishers, … Keep Reading
In Volume 21 we enjoyed chatting with Yvonne from Tobermory Library located in Argyll, Scotland.
You can find the Argyll Libraries on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LiveArgyllLib
Ataraxia
A state of freedom from emotional disturbance and anxiety; tranquillity. The word derives from the Ancient Greek (ἀταραξία) and it generally thought to have first been used by Pyrrho and other philosophers who believed this state was linked to maximising lucid thinking. Outside of philosophy it was used to describe the ideal … Keep Reading