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Fellows Find: Searching for Kazuo Ishiguro’s unreliable narrators
by Enora Lessinger I visited the Kazuo Ishiguro archive at the Harry Ransom Center in June 2017, a few months before Ishiguro was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. This British writer of Japanese descent is famous for the suggestive quality of his writing, and in particular for his self-deceived,… read more
Ed Ruscha: Archaeology and Romance
The Ransom Center presents the exhibition “Ed Ruscha: Archaeology and Romance” from Aug. 11, 2018, through Jan. 6, 2019.
Visit the Ransom Center car-free
This Thursday, June 21, marks the American Public Transportation Association (APTA)’s 13th annual National Dump the Pump Day, which encourages people to opt for public transportation rather than a personal car.
Remembering photojournalist David Douglas Duncan, 1916–2018
The internationally-renowned American photojournalist David Douglas Duncan has died at age 102 in France.
Meticulous free verse: Mallarmé’s Un Coup de Dés and Ellsworth Kelly
“The literary value, if I may say it, of this span of empty space on the page, which mentally separates groups of words or words themselves, is to periodically accelerate or slow the movement, the scansion, the sequence even, given one’s simultaneous view of the entirety of the page…” (Stéphane… read more