May 16, 2014, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsA graduation diploma: “The Eviction Notice Written in Latin” This week, The University of Texas at Austin prepares its podiums and fireworks for Saturday’s commencement ceremony, the 131st in the school’s history.
May 15, 2014, Filed Under: Authors, Books + ManuscriptsAcclaimed writer Ian McEwan’s archive acquired The Harry Ransom Center has acquired the archive of writer Ian McEwan (b. 1948), one of the most distinguished novelists of his generation. The archive documents McEwan’s career and includes early material from his childhood and adolescence, as well as his earliest abandoned stories dating from the late-1960s and early… read more
May 14, 2014, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events, FilmTomorrow in the theater: “All Quiet on the Western Front” Tomorrow, May 15, the Ransom Center will screen All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), the second film of the World War I Film Series, held in conjunction with the current exhibition, The World at War, 1914–1918. The film will be shown in the Ransom Center’s theater at 7 p.m.… read more
