April 22, 2025, Filed Under: Authors, Exhibitions + EventsLiterature and Change: Flair Symposium 2024 A recap with Q&As from Colm Tóibín, Ayad Akhtar, and Lisa Lucas by ERICA NUNN-KINIAS Flair was a groundbreaking magazine created by Fleur Cowles in 1950, known for its provocative design, insightful articles, and creative approach to blending literature, art, and culture. In honor of Cowles’s legacy, the Ransom Center’s… read more
April 22, 2025, Filed Under: AuthorsMark Sainsbury on W. S. Merwin An Interview with Mark Sainsbury by STEPHEN ENNISS W. S. Merwin (1927–2019) was one of the leading American poets of his generation, a poet who in verse and in his manner of living engaged in a life-long reflection on our relationship to the natural world. During a highly productive career,… read more
March 20, 2025, Filed Under: Art, Authors, ConservationNancy Cunard in the Studio by DR. TRACY BONFITTO, CURATOR OF ART In the Studio Is it March, spring, winter, autumn, twilight, noon Told in this distant sound of cuckoo clocks? Sunday it is—five lilies in swoon Decay against your wall, aggressive flocks Of alley-starlings aggravate a mood. The rain drops pensively. ‘If one could… read more
