October 9, 2023
Precisely ten years ago my dad and I stood outside Liverpool Street Station, London by Frank Meisler’s “The Arrival” memorial for the 75th anniversary of the Kindertransport. I had just… READ MORE
October 5, 2023
It’s time to introduce some new October releases! Starting off with Masquerades in African Society which looks into the role of masquerades in African rituals and performances; The African Charter… READ MORE
October 4, 2023
The broad features of the political process of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) are well known. They are generally assumed to begin with Decision 115 at… READ MORE
September 29, 2023
This is a story of a different GDR from the one that tends to get remembered and talked about. It is a story of a free GDR. 1989-1990 was a… READ MORE
September 26, 2023
True political success lies not so much in obtaining great power as in being able to keep it. This, at least, was the musing of Hieronymite friar Jerónimo de Román… READ MORE
September 24, 2023
In late 2016, I found myself re-reading with increasing urgency a poet whose work has retreated to the margins of American literature anthologies. James Russell Lowell’s “The Present Crisis,” a… READ MORE
September 22, 2023
As a researcher and author when a book project is finished you always know that there is potential that you’ve missed something. For many projects, this is a source of… READ MORE
September 20, 2023
If you’ve spent more than half a century involved with the music of a composer, you don’t think the piano world knows enough about, what might you do to increase… READ MORE
September 11, 2023
We pianists are expected to play three centuries of music on one kind of instrument, epitomized by the modern Steinway—largely unchanged since about 1890. It’s a fantastic tool, but it… READ MORE
September 5, 2023
Austrian-American pianist and composer Artur Schnabel was reportedly told by his teacher, Theodor Leschetitzky, that he ‘must learn to speak the piano’. When I first heard this story, it surprised me…. READ MORE
Q&A with Seth Peabody: Exploring German Film History