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William Shakespeare, who lived in England from 1564 to 1616, is one of the world’s most popular and
In April 2006, The Institute held a two day symposium about copyright and intellectual property, tit
Professor Matthew Thomas returns to explain how we can place the Gospels in time and context using b
In this episode from the Institute’s Vault, we hear the1982 Gallatin Lecture, in which Sir Edmund Le
Today I talked to Mani Rao about her translation Saundarya Lahari: Wave of Beauty" (HarperCollins, 2
When T. S. Eliot published The Waste Land in 1922, it put the thirty-four-year-old author on a path
Among the Jewish writers who emigrated from Eastern Europe to France in the 1910s and 1920s, a numbe
In this week’s episode from the Institute’s Vault, Molly Haskell talks about her 2009 book, Frankly,
Matthew Thomas, theologian and biblical scholar, explains how the Bible got to be the Bible, how con
In this week’s episode from the Institute’s Vault, we hear a lecture on the revival of narrative in
Lisa Swayze is the General Manager and Buyer at Buffalo Street Books, Ithaca’s cooperatively owned i
In this interview, she discusses her book, Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History (Oxfo
In the fall of 1942, only the city of Stalingrad stood between Soviet survival and defeat as Hitler’
“The Little Mermaid” has become popular around the world since the Danish author Hans Christian Ande
Three centuries of English idioms—their unusual origins and unexpected interpretations.To pay throug
Haruki Murakami, a global literary phenomenon, has said that he started writing fiction as a means o
John Milton is unrivalled--for the music of his verse and the breadth of his learning. In this brisk
Regarded as the “9th Art”, French bande desinée have a much longer history of serious socio-politica
From governesses with supernatural powers to motor-car obsessed amphibians, the iconic images of Eng
In Writing With Scripture: Scripturalized Narrative in the Gospel of Mark (T&T Clark, 2022), Nat
