Portrait of Marcel Proust painted by Jacques-Émile Blanche in 1892, when Proust was 21 years old. /...
Literature
One man’s quest to create a library of everything, 500 years before Google Books was conceived, foreshadowed...
“I’m drawn to people who don’t fit neatly into boxes,” says Professor Maya Jasanoff about the subject...
The Shakespearean Forest reimagines the real forests that our greatest playwright evoked in his works. The final book of...
The Deluge tablet of the Gilgamesh epic in Akkadian By Danielle Dencio / 2007 The Epic of Gilgamesh is...
By Dr. Raquel Martín-Hernández / 03.28.2014 Postdoctoral Researcher Universidad Complutense de Madrid Abstract The verses of Homer...
By Dr. Daniil Leiderman / 07.22.2017 Instructional Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture Texas A&M University William Blake...
Ernest Hemingway with a bull near Pamplona, Spain in 1927, two years before ‘A Farewell to Arms’...
Robert Lowell, American Poet By Robin Lindley / 11.10.2017 I believe that mania and genius not uncommonly...
Classic narratives. From Cinderella, 1950. Photo by Rex Features By Veronique Greenwood / 11.18.2016 In recent years, literature...
P. T. Barnum’s white elephant Toung Taloung, featured in an extra supplement to the Illustrated London News, January...
San Fernando Valley Credit: Oakshade, Wikimedia Commons By Dr. David A. Wacks / 05.24.2017 Professor of Spanish Department of Romance...
Gebhard Fugel, ‘An den Wassern Babylons.’ Gebhard Fugel [Public domain] By Dr. David W. Stowe / 07.27.2017 Professor...
Hundreds of new images from Thoreau’s collection of plant specimens will be available for viewing online. “I...
A Houghton Library exhibit contains ephemera related to poet and scholar Henry David Thoreau, such as this...
Abandoned homes in Pripyat, 2km from Chernobyl. / Photo by Dana Sacchetti, IAEA Imagebank By Dr. David...
Kumeyaay coiled basket, woven by Celestine Lachapa, 19th century / Photo by Durova (Wikimedia Commons), San Diego Museum...
Woodcut of the morse from Olaus Magnus’ Historiae de Gentibus Septentrionalibus (1558 edition) / archive.org Amongst the...
From Herman Melville’s Moby Dick / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Jenny Davidson / 08.22.2016 Professor of English and...
Photo by Ken Howard By Dr. Eric A. Gordon / 06.01.2017 Almost a decade ago I had...
Restored ruins of the Temple of Hera, ancient Doric Greek temple at Olympia, Greece / Photo by...
Lecture by Dr. Belinda Jack at the Museum of London / 04.11.2017 Professor of Modern Languages Christ...
The Tower of Hercules overview / Wikimedia Commons One of the most popular of Greek heroes, Hercules...
Statue of Thomas Jefferson / Photo by Gage Skidmore, Flickr, Creative Commons By Dr. Ruth Finnegan Emeritus...
“Rig in Great-grandfather’s Cottage”, by W. G. Collingwood, 1908 / Public Domain By Kimberly Lin / 03.21.2017...
By Dr. Gregory Nagy / 03.13.2015 Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature Professor of Comparative Literature...
The Old Drunkard, Hellenistic Sculpture, Late 3rd century BCE / Glyptothek, Munich By Dr. Peter Kruschwitz /...
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Augusto de Campos’s Lygia Fingers, a poem from 1953 for his wife-to-be, Lygia Azeredo, highlights the international...
Sinclair Lewis at the wheel of his automobile, ca. 1920s / Yale University Library Some three decades...
Sculptural Group of a Seated Poet (possibly Orpheus) with Two Sirens, 350–300 B.C., Greek, made in Tarentum,...