Don DeLillo’s Masterwork, Annotated by the Author
On Dec. 2 in Manhattan, a first edition of Underworld, the 1997 novel by acclaimed…
Literature
How We Hear Influences Who We Are, Sound Scholar Finds
The sound of a New York City subway roaring beneath an apartment building at night…
Renaissance Relevance in the 21st Century
Chivalric and epic poems of the Renaissance might seem to have little to do with…
Lecture Warns of Apocalypse (As Common Motif)
Global warming, nuclear threat, economic disaster, dwindling natural resources, religious prophecies—the cataclysmic scenarios abounding in…
Apocalypse NOW: America’s Fascination with Doomsday and Why it Matters
Apocalypse Now: America’s Fascination with Doomsday and Why It Matters Wednesday, September 12, 2012 |…
How an English Class Inspired an Art Show
Leonard Cassuto, Ph.D., has long held a fascination with the early American captivity narrative. A…
Turow Sees Post-Watergate Gain in Popularity of Legal Fiction
Author and lawyer Scott Turow credited the Watergate scandal of the 1970s with creating an…
Bestselling Novelist Turow to Speak at Fordham Law Forum
Scott Turow, the bestselling author of legal thrillers Presumed Innocent and The Burden of Proof,…
Prize-Winning Novelist Ha Jin on The First Emperor
Prize-winning poet and novelist Ha Jin spoke in the McNally Amphitheatre on the Lincoln Center…
Lecture to Honor Cervantes and Modern Novel
NEW YORK— In commemoration of the quadricentennial year of the publication of Cervantes’Don Quixote and the…