May 4, 2018, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsInterview with Ian McEwan The Harry Ransom Center spoke with Ian McEwan in 2014 about archives, contemporary British fiction, science and the humanities, and where to find paradise on earth. McEwan’s archive is accessible at the Ransom Center.
April 17, 2018, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Featured1, Research + TeachingFellows Find: Multilingual readers in Shakespeare’s England I visited the Harry Ransom Center last July to research bilingual and multilingual dictionaries, grammars, and language manuals printed in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
April 12, 2018, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Featured1, Research + TeachingThe Humours of Whist, a sophisticated play 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:… read more