Marginalia is having a moment. While many people consider it sacrilege to write — whether with pencil or pen — in the blank spots on the pages of a print book, there are also those who celebrate the ...

Every manuscript, before the printing press made the labour invisible, passed through the hands of a copyist, someone whose ...

Readers are sharing how they write their predictions into novels, colour-code their emotional responses and even gift annotated books to friends. Is it actually fun, or just a bit like homework? There ...

Unlikely as it may sound, the study of such annotations is a recognized academic specialty, albeit an arcane one. There’s even a word for them, “marginalia,” coined by the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...

“In getting my books,” Edgar Allan Poe wrote in 1844, “I have always been solicitous of an ample margin; this is not so much through any love of the thing in itself, however agreeable, as for the ...

At Steven Wolf Fine Arts, "The Marginalia Archive" by Washington, D.C., artist Molly Springfield extends her practice of drawing printed and handwritten text, and adds a social dimension. Some time ...

To the many reasons we have for admiring Marlene Dietrich can now be added the fact that she was an inveterate scribbler in books. In a volume describing the love affair between Laurence Olivier and ...