October 25, 2018, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Digital Collections, Featured1The Digitized Dylan Thomas: The single word as thing, dropped on to the page “To begin at the beginning: It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters’ – and – rabbits’ wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea.”
October 4, 2018, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Featured1Printing manuscripts In order to understand the Gutenberg Bible, it is critical to remember that it is a medieval book that was designed to satisfy the needs of medieval readers. Today, we expect pages in most books to be black and white. To navigate what we read, we rely on variations in… read more
September 28, 2018, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Film, Research + TeachingLove and jazz Maxine Gordon has loved jazz music all her life. From going to hear Miles Davis and John Coltrane as a teenager, to working as a road manager and promoter when she was a young woman, to becoming the personal manager and ultimately the wife of one of the most influential… read more
