More and more of us may read their newspaper online. But many kinds of paper are “on a roll.” Martha Teichner this morning offers us a crash course on paper. You might want to take notes: They’re just ...

Two new books about the history of paper — both tell the same story, right? Well, not really, and, in their differences, the books reveal much about the writing and reading of history. Consider this ...

I read Kurlansky's Paper for two reasons. First, I’m a big fan of micro-histories. I’ve read books about: cod, the potato, salt, uranium, chess, coal, undersea cables, the number zero, coffee, the ...