(SEE COVER) And now, panel, for the mystery guest. Masks in place? Good. He is salaried. He works for a profit-making organization. He deals in a product. It is smaller than a breadbox. On the side, ...

Without a blush, Publisher Bennett Cerf predicted last week that while Samuel Johnson was the great lexicog rapher of the 18th century and Noah Webster of the 19th, Random House will be the best of ...

These words were spoken with the confidence of a man who knows he is the subject of an Esquire feature. His photo catches him mid-laugh, brown eyes squinting behind horn-rimmed glasses, ...

Former employees of Alfred A. (for Abraham) Knopf, a publisher with the appearance and manner of a retired Cossack sergeant, recall that on the frequent occasions when Knopf was displeased, he would ...

WARS I HAVE SEEN—Gertrude Stein —Random House ($2.50), “Not many people,” observed Gertrude Stein’s U.S. publisher, Bennett Cerf, in his best-selling Try and Stop Me, “even claim to understand the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In 1978, Time magazine donated ...