Print/Screen Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/printscreen/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:18:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Print/Screen Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/printscreen/ 32 32 Reading after the University https://www.publicbooks.org/reading-after-the-university-english-departments/ Wed, 23 Nov 2022 16:00:26 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=50860 If you want to support readers, the best hope will always be helping do away with economic compulsion and the division of labor.

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]]> The Text: Do Not Disturb https://www.publicbooks.org/the-text-do-not-disturb/ Thu, 28 Jul 2022 15:00:34 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=49207 Does loving a work of literature mean seizing it? How should critics feel about their feelings toward a text?

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]]> In Praise of Search Tools https://www.publicbooks.org/in-praise-of-search-tools/ Thu, 06 Jan 2022 16:00:49 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=46891 For centuries, book-makers, printers, furniture-makers and, now, programmers have worked to answer: how do you find what you need in a book?

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]]> Rereading the Revolt https://www.publicbooks.org/rereading-the-revolt/ Fri, 05 Nov 2021 15:00:01 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=46076 In May 1381, rebels burned documents at Cambridge, then scattered the ashes to the wind. But why were universities targeted by the rebels?

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]]> What Happens When a Metaphor Becomes Real? https://www.publicbooks.org/what-happens-when-a-metaphor-becomes-real/ Thu, 03 Jun 2021 15:00:44 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=43542 The humanities can reveal the truth of the world’s crises, everything from contagions like the pandemic to apocalypses like right-wing violence.

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]]> What’s in a Bookstore? https://www.publicbooks.org/whats-in-a-bookstore/ Thu, 06 May 2021 15:00:01 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=42978 For more than five centuries, equilibrium between profit and passion has remained elusive to book buyers and sellers.

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]]> Getting to the Party in Time https://www.publicbooks.org/getting-to-the-party-in-time/ Mon, 09 Dec 2019 16:00:32 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=32780 The best parties, L. O. Aranye Fradenburg Joy claims in her epilogue to Jonathan Goldberg’s Sappho: ]fragments, are the after-parties: the parties that happen ...

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]]> Public Thinker: Leah Price on Books, Book Tech, and Book Tattoos https://www.publicbooks.org/public-thinker-leah-price-on-books-book-tech-and-book-tattoos/ Thu, 26 Sep 2019 15:00:58 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=30824 Readers today believe that they are living through unprecedented changes in how ...

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]]> How Does Copyright Matter? https://www.publicbooks.org/how-does-copyright-matter/ Mon, 05 Aug 2019 15:00:32 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=29818 Copyright as we know it is a surprisingly recent development. It has been with us just a few decades—only as long, roughly, as Hello Kitty and the Star Wars ...

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]]> What I Learned on Medieval Twitter https://www.publicbooks.org/what-i-learned-on-medieval-twitter/ Wed, 24 Jul 2019 15:00:02 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=29621 Most of the people I follow on Twitter are medievalists, even though I’m not a medievalist myself. Far from it: my research focuses on the 20th and 21st ...

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