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Medieval manuscripts are our shared inheritance, and today they are more accessible than ever—thanks
In A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being (Duke UP, 2021), Kaiama L
We shouldn’t be dismissive of the popularity of children’s literature among adults, as it is often i
This episode is a recording of a short paper presented by Kim and Saronik in the panel “Literary Cri
Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions revolutionized the way philosophers and histor
Historian and author Dexter Gabriel talks about his relationship to truth and memory in his fiction
Wout J. van Bekkum's The Religious Poetry of El'azar Ben Ya'aqov Ha-Bavli (Baghdad, 13th C.) (Brill,
Dan Kois is the author of three nonfiction books: How to Be A Family, a memoir; The World Only Spins
Despite being set in the distant future on a remote desert planet, the story of resource extraction,
William Shakespeare, who lived in England from 1564 to 1616, is one of the world’s most popular and
Roma figures have been an essential part of European folklore, myths, and literary traditions for ce
In 1982, the Institute held a multi day discussion of censorship. In this session from the Vault, so
Robin Vose (St. Thomas University) talks about his new monograph, The Index of Prohibited Books: Fou
Many African Americans of the Civil War era felt a personal connection to Abraham Lincoln. For the f
In Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England (U Pennsylvania
In The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought (Ohio State UP, 2021), Profes
After more than a century of genocides and in the midst of a global pandemic, Lesley Higgins and Mar
Roosevelt Montás is Senior Lecturer in American Studies and English at Columbia University. A specia
In 1983, ten years after W. H. Auden’s death, the New York Institute for the Humanities organized a
Who gets to define generational cohorts and do they obscure more than illuminate?Guests Neil Howe, a
