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The book "With the Heart on Paper. History and Theory of Love Letters" by Montserrat Jiménez Sureda is an extensive analysis of love letters throughout history. The book reveals how love is represented in the words of scientists, spiritual leaders, artists, and thinkers throughout the centuries. The book is structured like a letter and contains personal reflections and opinions from the author. Although it may be challenging, the book offers a unique insight into communication and the value of love letters. [Extracted from the article]

In I Places of Reconciliation i , Sarah Pinto explores the possibilities and limitations of public art and commemorative naming under a reconciliation framework within a settler-colonial city (Melbourne). Places of Reconciliation: Commemorating Indigenous History in the Heart of Melbourne: By Sarah Pinto. Here Pinto also gives a helpful historical background to the colonisation of Narrm/Melbourne in the lands of the Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation. [Extracted from the article]

In the midst of his labors on his many-volumed biography of Henry James, Leon Edel paused to give a series of lectures in which, meditating on the tension between biographer and subject, he revealed that not only had James deliberately set out to thwart his future biographer by burning his papers, he had also played the Jamesian trick of equipping his desk with a secret drawer that, when opened after his death, turned out to contain only a gout remedy and a prescription for glasses. On the scholarly level, as his readers now know, Edel was more than holding his own. A biographical feat with which he was particularly pleased had to do with his discovery that in 1909, at age 66, James had consulted a London, England doctor about his heart.