THE LAST MASTODON: THE SHORT AND DISASTROUS LIFE OF THE WORLD'S BIGGEST NEWSPAPER.

The article focuses on the rise and rapid fall of "The Illuminated Quadruple Constellation," a colossal and chaotic 1859 newspaper that briefly held the title of the world's largest. Topics include the era's trend of oversized "mastodon" papers driven by copyright loopholes and printing innovations, the logistical and editorial absurdities involved in producing the Constellation, and its ultimate financial failure despite its ambitious scale and spectacle.