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Fellows Find: Searching for Kazuo Ishiguro’s unreliable narrators

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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, unreliable narrators. [Read more…] about Fellows Find: Searching for Kazuo Ishiguro’s unreliable narrators

Scholarship, time machines, and madness

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by Beth Burns, Hidden Room Theatre Artistic Director

John Wilkes Booth’s promptbook for Richard III

“Ready trumpet. Boy ready with armor. Take time. More piano. Long flourish continued till discovery, next Sc. – and do not W Till Mr Booth is on stage.” [Read more…] about Scholarship, time machines, and madness

The Humours of Whist, a sophisticated play

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by David Levy

After a fruitful visit to the Harry Ransom Center in January, I tweeted,

“Who would have thought that I’d run into a Thomas J. Wise “sophistication” in my Hoyle research @ransomcenter?”

Like so many tweets, this is a bit tough to parse. Let’s break it into pieces: Hoyle, Wise, and “sophistication.” [Read more…] about The Humours of Whist, a sophisticated play