Excerpt from UNTIL AUGUST: A NOVEL by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Anne McLean, translation copyright © 2024 by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House… read more
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Beyond the Frame: Film Posters in the 1970s
by ASH KINNEY D’HARCOURT The 1970s in the United States saw significant social, cultural, and economic upheaval in the context of an ongoing sexual revolution, anti-war sentiment and political scandals. Struggling to maintain relevance during this decade, the industry began to incorporate more explicit violence and sexuality as well as… read more
J. M. Coetzee’s Garden of Creation
by HERMANN WITTENBERG Important additions to the Coetzee Papers shed light on the author’s recent writing Working in a literary archive can be a remarkable experience, like being present in a garden of creation. When reading through the early manuscript versions of novels, one can encounter a textual labyrinth of… read more
Conservation: The Clarkson Stanfield Album
by ANDREA KNOWLTON Photographic albums are complex book structures with unique weaknesses and vulnerabilities. To make the Clarkson Stanfield Album, the photographs were adhered to individual leaves of paper, which were then hinged and nested together into sections that could be sewn together into a traditional book structure. Even with… read more
Fellowships Awarded to 54 Scholars
The Ransom Center has awarded 54 fellowships for the upcoming year to postdoctoral, dissertation and independent researchers studying a wide array of topics, from a women’s history of modernism told through clothing to the imprisoned writer in the international imagination and more. Since 1990, the Ransom Center Fellowship Program has… read more
Elegance and Ambition: Hill & Adamson’s Book of 100 Calotypes
by JESSICA S. MCDONALD A superior volume of early photographs by the celebrated Scottish partnership of Hill & Adamson (active 1843–1847) is the subject of an unprecedented exhibition this spring. Formally titled 100 Calotypes by D. O. Hill, R.S.A., and R. Adamson, the volume is better known as the Clarkson… read more