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November 5, 2020
William Blake’s Color Theory Quantizing Color in William Blake’s Illuminated Books studies the artistic output of the Romantic poet and painter, William Blake (1757-1827)....
November 4, 2020
Margaret Spillane in The Nation: “Costa Gavras’s classic antifascist thriller reminds us that the moment of reckoning constitutes not the end of the story, but the beginning...
October 26, 2020
Amanda Anderson in conversation with Jonathan Kramnick (Yale University) on the challenges facing the humanities during Covid-19. We discuss the job market crisis for...
October 12, 2020
This week join National Humanities Center President Robert Newman and writer and scholar David Bromwich to discuss his book, American Breakdown: The Trump Years and How They...
Louise Gluck
October 8, 2020
Louise Glück has been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature ”for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.” Washington...
September 23, 2020
Naima Coster is the author of two novels. Her debut, Halsey Street, was a finalist for the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Fiction and longlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist...
Samuel Delany
September 14, 2020
With this year’s Windham-Campbell festival cancelled due to the pandemic, the prize’s organizers have found a new way to honor the eight recipients and their craft. The...