Stele of Minnakht, chief of the scribes, 14th century BCE. (Louvre Museum, Paris) By Dr. Joshua J....
Literature
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...
The idea of a human’s life being divisible into distinct stages has been around for millennia, a...
A portrait of Frank Norris by the painter Ernest Clifford Peixotto, possibly Norris’ oldest friend, the two...
Detail from a hand-colored engraving of Byron’s Villa Diodati on the shores of Lake Geneva, by Edward...
In the galleries of Traversing the Globe through Illuminated Manuscripts. Photo: Bryan C. Keene. All rights reserved...
Photo by Tarika Wickremeratne By Ameena Hussein For as long as I can remember we have had...
Warriors Nereid Monument / British Museum 166 By Dr. Casey Dué Hackney Director and Professor, Program in...
The modern renaissance of the lyric essay occurs in an age distinguished by increasingly interrupted experience By...
Íslendingasögur by Gilwellian – Árni Magnússon Institute By Rebecca Merkelbach Doctoral Student University of Cambridge “I’ve come...
William Shakespeare. Portrait of William Shakespeare 1564-1616. Chromolithography after Hombres y Mujeres celebres 1877, Barcelona Spain By...
Photo by Juan Javier Rivera By Dr. Rane Willerslev Professor of Anthropology, Director of Museum of Cultural...