Matthew Battles is the author of Library: An Unquiet History. He has written about language, technology, and history for such publications as The American Scholar, The Boston Sunday Globe, and Harper's. He is the editor and lead writer of

Latest Articles

• Sendak in the Library, In the Margin May 10, 2012
• The Sense of an Ending, Reviews & Essays November 1, 2011
• Tove Jansson's Art of Play, Reviews & Essays August 17, 2011
• The First Detective, Reviews & Essays July 5, 2011
• The Beginners, Reviews & Essays June 30, 2011
• Centuries of June, Reviews & Essays June 2, 2011
• Which "Aesthetics" Do You Mean?, Reviews & Essays January 4, 2011
• The Passages of H. M., Reviews & Essays December 28, 2010
• The Killing of Crazy Horse, Reviews & Essays December 1, 2010
• The Man Who Never Returned, Reviews & Essays August 5, 2010
• The Finger: A Handbook, Reviews & Essays May 19, 2010
• Anthill, Reviews & Essays April 7, 2010
• The Case for Books, Reviews & Essays February 23, 2010
• You Are Not a Gadget, Reviews & Essays January 12, 2010
• Doyle & Houdini: Spirits & Skeptics, Gallery December 31, 2009
• Stories in Stone, In Brief December 15, 2009
• Chronic City, Reviews & Essays October 14, 2009
• Terms and Conditions, In the Margin September 18, 2009
• Darwin's Armada: Four Voyages and the Battle for the Theory of Evolution, In Brief August 17, 2009
• The Book of William: How Shakespeare's First Folio Conquered the World, In Brief July 13, 2009
• Shop Class as Soul Craft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work, Reviews & Essays June 26, 2009
• The Exchange-Rate Between Love and Money, In Brief June 08, 2009
• Flying, Reviews & Essays April 22, 2009
• Poe: A Life Cut Short, In Brief January 26, 2009
• Angels and Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life, Reviews & Essays January 26, 2009
• John Milton: Life, Work, and Thought, In Brief January 19, 2009
• Roads to Quoz, Reviews & Essays November 10, 2008
• Concrete Reveries, Reviews & Essays September 23, 2008
• Hubert's Freaks: The Rare Book Dealer, the Times Square Talker, and the Lost Photos of Diane Arbus, In Brief September 15, 2008
• Dry Storeroom No. 1: the Secret Life of the Natural History Museum, In Brief September 01, 2008
• Tuna: A Love Story, In Brief August 25, 2008
• The Summer Book, In Brief August 18, 2008
• The Snake Charmer: A Life and Death in Pursuit of Knowledge, In Brief July 21, 2008
• Prague in Danger, Reviews & Essays July 10, 2008
• Inventing Niagara: Beauty, Power, and Lies, Reviews & Essays June 03, 2008
• Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human, In Brief May 16, 2008
• A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade, Reviews & Essays May 05, 2008