April 16, 2013, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsMorris Dickstein to discuss Commentary magazine Author Morris Dickstein presents the lecture “America’s Best Magazine?: Commentary in the 1960s” this Thursday, April 18, at 7 p.m. at the Harry Ransom Center. In 2011, Commentary magazine donated its archive to the Center, and the collection is now open for research. Founded in November 1945, shortly after World… read more
February 9, 2012, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingFellows Find: Finding humanity in the Isaac Bashevis Singer correspondence Alexandra Tali Herzog, PhD candidate in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University, visited the Harry Ransom Center in June 2011 on a dissertation fellowship to investigate the Isaac Bashevis Singer collection. In her dissertation, she examines the interplay between demonology, libertinism, and religion in Singer’s work. Drawing… read more
