Once upon a time I was an academic historian. I suppose I still am. You can take the historian out of academia but not the other way round. In any case, I was once tasked with writing an essay on the significance of a particular historical object, a book published in 1873 called The New Mola!
The book is not, technically speaking, lost to us now: a …
Continue reading this post for free, courtesy of Hanne Blank Boyd.
