For those in the audience who aren’t well versed in wrangling dead trees, a large press with a lot of clamping pressure can be used for binding books or printing. It can even be used to squeeze the ...

On a still, hot day in August, I’m snaking through Venice in a water taxi, gliding between the moored boats bobbing on its quiet canals. I’m dropped off at the edge of Cannaregio, at the steps of an ...