The Headline:
"ee the Read Like the Wind Newsletter
Our critic’s latest recommendations for books old and new include “Pigeon” and “The Odyssey.”
why "old" and "new" after book?? any special sense? I would have written:
...recommendations for old and new books....
so why these adjectives comes after the noun
Adjectives that come after the noun are called postpositive adjectives.
They're uncommon in modern English, but we used to have them a long time ago. When you see them today, they are usually old phrases and expressions that were very common, and haven't changed.
The phrases "big/large and small" and "old and new" are probably the most common postpositive adjectives still used in modern English. Because they're old, these expressions have a poetic or old-fashioned feeling. They're not everyday English. We cannot say, "books old" or "books new" on their own.
