July 26, 2018
African Literature Today, much like modern African Literature and its criticism as a formal intellectual discipline, has been in the Academy for half a century. Chinua Achebe published his first… READ MORE
July 23, 2018
Here’s some great insight into a recent publication, an unusual and very special new book devoted to the work of an artist who’s a giant in his field: John Ferguson,… READ MORE
July 18, 2018
Dr John S. Lee’s The Medieval Clothier is remarkable in at least two ways: it gives us wonderful insight into the industry that formed the backbone of medieval England’s economy,… READ MORE
July 13, 2018
Jeffrey L. Forgeng talks about the challenges of translating this classic text on historical combat. I chose to translate Lecküchner’s 1482 treatise among the many dozens of surviving medieval combat… READ MORE
July 9, 2018
Without translation there would be no Holocaust. That’s the conclusion I came to about two-thirds of the way through the research and writing for my book, Witness between Languages. It’s… READ MORE
July 6, 2018
The fear of damnation, the modernist sensibility and the racial politics of twentieth-century America are just some of the topics bursting out of this July’s must-reads. Take a look through… READ MORE
July 4, 2018
Dear Nancy, I’m writing a letter in the way that a woman of the late-eighteenth or early-nineteenth century might have written to her friend—to share ideas, emotions, thoughts, aspirations—assuming that… READ MORE
Q&A with Seth Peabody: Exploring German Film History