Like the many examples it covers, Allen’s history of the notebook both instructs and entertains. Most chapters draw on ...

True, the explanation in the back of the 48-page notebook presents the basic facts about Stalin, portraying him as “the symbol of both the USSR’s greatest achievements and its darkest sides ...

As it happens, in the opening chapter of “The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper,” Roland Allen describes the creation and marketing of those fashion-forward, overpriced Moleskines.He ...