November 14, 2018, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingCentral Texas to west Texas and beyond “What do the books smell like?” asked one of my students. In my Shakespeare class at West Texas A&M University, we must use the internet as our rare book room. Our institution could never afford the kinds of specialized resources we use every week online: my students can easily flip… read more
November 14, 2018, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + TeachingResearcher publications Ernest Hemingway: A Biography Mary V. Dearborn Knopf, 2017 A revelatory look into the life and work of Ernest Hemingway. Dearborn’s biography gives a rich and nuanced portrait of this complex, enigmatically unique American artist, whose same uncontrollable demons that inspired and drove him throughout his life undid him at… read more
November 14, 2018, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + TeachingA very good year for Modernism An interview with Bill Goldstein
November 14, 2018, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsDon DeLillo’s Libra at 30 Decades after its publication, this fictional account of the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas remains provocative.
November 12, 2018, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Featured1An interview with Nigel Newton, Founder of Bloomsbury Publishing Nigel Newton is an American-born British publisher who was raised in San Francisco and moved to England to do his degree in English from Selwyn College, Cambridge. Newton is the founder and chief executive of Bloomsbury Publishing, one of the world’s leading independent publishing companies.
October 30, 2018, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1A conversation on “Dying Well in Early Modern England” with curator Aaron Pratt A current Stories to Tell display embraces the Halloween spirit with a collection of early printed books from throughout the Ransom Center’s collections that take on the topic of death.
