Simon Garfield’s new book, “All the Knowledge in the World,” is a fascinating history of the encyclopedia and what we have lost as it becomes obsolete.

SHORES OF KNOWLEDGE New World Discoveries by Joyce Appleby December 13, 2013 More than 11 years ago Christopher Columbus returned in 1493 from his first voyage with a bit of gold to entice royal ...

The life and death of the encyclopedia is recounted in Simon Garfield’s excellent new book. Mr. Garfield, an Englishman in his early 60s, is lucid, witty, learned and clearly a bibliomaniac, who ...

John Gribbon reviews "The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning," by Marcelo Gleiser ...

Science and literature alike are readers of the world. And, sooner or later, both lead us to the unreadable, the boundary at which the unintelligible begins.