In this episode of The Big Question, we discuss the history of the simple material that changed the world. What is the history of paper? Arts and Culture writer Maán Jalal tells us about Mark Kurlansky’s latest microhistory Paper: Paging Through History which documents the two-thousand-year journey of a material that we take for granted.

<p>In this episode of The Big Question, we discuss the history of the simple material that changed the world. What is the history of paper? Arts and Culture writer Ma&aacute;n Jalal tells us about Mark Kurlansky&rsquo;s latest microhistory Paper: Paging Through History which documents the two-thousand-year journey of a material that we take for granted.</p>

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