Celtic Invasions / University of Oregon, Creative Commons Lecture by Dr. David A. Wacks / 10.30.2013 Professor...
Literature
A Soviet-era stamp depicts a scene from Leo Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace.’ / Wikimedia Commons By Dr....
Medea Kills Her Children, by Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix, 1862, oil on canvas / Louvre Museum, Paris Medea in...
BrightStar By Dr. Dorothy Jakobsh Professor of Religious Studies University of Waterloo, Canada What is today known...
Detail from the film Robinson Crusoe (1902) by Georges Méliès / Wikimedia Commons In the wake of...
By Dr. James Sexton Lecturer in English Literature Specialist in Modern, Renaissance, and Utopian/Dystopian Literatures Camosun College...
Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula / Wikimedia Commons From that famed night of ghost-stories in a Lake...
Ajax and Achilles Playing a Game, by Exekias, vase painting, 6th century BCE / Wikimedia Commons By...
Bust of John Milton / National Portrait Gallery, London Lecture by Dr. John Rogers / 10.01.2007 Professor...
Mughal Emperor Akbar / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. A. Azfar Moin Associate Professor of Religious Studies University...
The correct title is Passover’s Song of Songs, not Song of Solomon By Dr. E. Ann Matter...
By Dr. James Sexton Lecturer in English Literature Specialist in Modern, Renaissance, and Utopian/Dystopian literatures Camosun College...
By Dr. Rodger Wilkie Associate Professor of English St. Thomas University Volume 2:2012 Abstract The epic hero...
By Maria Popova / 12.26.2016 Hidden Insights From A Martial Arts Movie Star You will never get...
By Dr. Will McMorran / 12.21.2016 Senior Lecturer in French and Comparative Literature Queen Mary University of...
Professor John Sutherland considers how Dickens’s A Christmas Carol engages with Victorian attitudes towards poverty, labour and...
(image from a manuscript [Colmar Bibliothèque municipale, 0409 (493)] of the translation into Latin by Carlo Marsuppini...
By Barry Ritholtz / 12.02.2016 5 years ago, Boing Boing described James Gleick’s The Information: A History,...
Detail from a photograph of Virginia Woolf taken in 1902 by George Charles Beresford / Wikimedia Commons...
Anita Francis, ‘The Complete Works of Shakespeare,’ book sculpture, 2014. By permission of the artist. Anita Francis,...
Inmates at San Quentin State Prison gather for a concert, date unknown / insidecdcr.ca.gov On the centenary...
Stele of Minnakht, chief of the scribes, 14th century BCE. (Louvre Museum, Paris) By Dr. Joshua J....
Greene as pictured in the frontispiece to John Dickenson’s Greene in Conceipt (1598) / Wikimedia Commons Known...
New forms of entertainment and consumption abound. And yet the book endures. Swikar Patel/AP By Dr....
A science fiction novel by the incredibly wealthy businessman and member of the prominent Astor family, John...
Frankenstein sketch 3 by Dumaker By Dr. Leo Braudy / 10.28.2016 Leo S. Bing chair in English...
Born: February 1, 1902 Died: May 22, 1967 Langston Hughes was one of the most important writers...
Colour version of Abraham Ortelius’ Typus Orbis Terrarum, a map inserted into the first edition of Richard...
A portrait of Indian poet and musician Rabindranath Tagore. Cherishsantosh/Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Alex Lubet / 10.14.2016...
A new study tries to measure the impact of reading on creativity and the motivation to write....