Unsurprisingly, in reading Duncan’s book, I began with the index. Such a book might have a quite self-conscious one, you’d think. Although the indexer, Paula Clarke Bain, ...

The distinction between the more interpretive subject index and the more objective word index remains important throughout Duncan’s book. There’s more fun to be had with the subject index ...

INDEX, A HISTORY OF THE A Bookish Adventure From Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age By Dennis Duncan Illustrated. 344 pages. W.W. Norton & Company. $30. Before reading “Index, A History of ...

INDEX, A HISTORY OF THE A Bookish Adventure From Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age By Dennis Duncan. Over the last quarter-century, the book as physical organism has been increasingly ...

For example, the index for our casebook is nearly 30 pages. I wonder whether an index is still a valuable asset for a book--especially a casebook. Do you still use book indexes?

"Index, a History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age" explores the development of those things in the back of a book that many of us turn to for reference.