By Dr. James Sexton Lecturer in English Literature Specialist in Modern, Renaissance, and Utopian/Dystopian literatures Camosun College...
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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....
Bob Dylan, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday, pictured in New York City...
Robert Fludd’s Temple of Music. One of the great seventeenth-century occultist’s contributions to the domain of speculative...
From the Banned Books Week Coalition: The Banned Books Week Coalition is a national alliance of diverse...
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/25825397839032338 By Dr. Jonathan Coopersmith Professor of History Texas A&M University The explosion of information technology in...
Margaret Garcia sorts books for shelving in the new Indian Valley Library Collective. Photo by Jane Braxton...
Are there really heroes and villains in Shakespeare’s plays? Those concepts suggest that someone can be all...
A family photograph of the children’s author Roald Dahl, with his wife Patricia Neal, and children Olivia,...
Adolf Hitler and his entourage take a stroll in Paris on June 23, 1940. German Federal Archives/Wikimedia...
A Malling-Hansen Writing Ball, similar to the one Nietzsche used. Peter Mitterhofer By Dr. Matthew Kirschenbaum /...
Paper or tablet? Megan Trace By Dr. Naomi Baron / 07.20.2016 Executive Director – Center for Teaching,...
In the galleries of Traversing the Globe through Illuminated Manuscripts. Photo: Bryan C. Keene. All rights reserved...