The Rijksmuseum Research Library was not designed to be convenient. It was designed to be overwhelming. Four floors of floor-to-ceiling shelving rising on all sides of a central atrium, tens of…
The illuminated manuscript is easy to misread as luxury. The floral borders, the painted miniatures, the red rubrication that punctuates columns of dense black script — these look, to modern eyes,…
The archive is not a neutral repository. Every decision made in its construction — what to collect, what to discard, how to classify, who is permitted access — is an act of historical production. The…
The standard advice for writers trying to build an audience online involves a set of recommendations that are individually defensible and collectively corrosive: post consistently, engage with your…
The decision most independent publishers treat as technical is actually editorial. Which content management system you write in shapes how you write, how frequently you publish, what kinds of content…
The illuminated manuscript was not a luxury object in the Mughal court. It was a technology of power. The emperors who commissioned them — Akbar above all, but also Jahangir and Shah Jahan —…
GIGABYTE has announced the Z890 PLUS series motherboards, a lineup built specifically around Intel’s Core Ultra 200S Plus processors and positioned as the performance-per-dollar entry point into the…
The eighth-generation Lexus ES arrives with a substantially revised hybrid model, marking the first time the long-running luxury sedan has offered all-wheel drive. The 2026 ES 350h adopts Lexus’…
Preliminary casualty figures from the 2026 Iran conflict stand at approximately 3,375 killed in Iran, 2,509 in Lebanon, and 28 in Gulf states. These are figures from open reporting; the classified…
The UK Maritime Trade Operations Centre confirmed Monday that a vessel was struck by unknown projectiles in the Strait of Hormuz, hours after President Trump announced the U.S. would begin guiding…