Since a very young age, Dr Martin Allen has been fascinated with coins. Here, in an exclusive interview, the author of ‘Mints and Money in Medieval England’, explains how this childhood fascination...
Contrary to his measured yet precise writing style in his classic works, Ernest Hemingway was a lively and effervescent correspondent in his letters to his family and friends.
Opera is such a hugely varied art form, especially now that the boundaries of the repertoire have been opened up to include works of every period, style, and nationality. But given this huge variety, where...
What inspired you to research this subject? I’m a night person – that’s the most basic inspiration. I wrote most of my dissertation at night, for example. Back when I was in graduate school,...
For those who missed The JFK Library’s December panel discussion of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume I, 1907-1922 featuring editor Sandra Spanier, Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon,...
Head to the Wisbech and Fenland Museum in Wisbech, England, and you can see the original autograph manuscript for Great Expectations, often considered one of Charles Dickens’ finest works. A gift...
In bonus footage from our behind the scenes look at The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume I, editor Sandra Spanier interviews Hemingway’s son Patrick on the portrait of his iconic father that emerges...
As Mikkel Borch-Jakobsen and Sonu Shamdasani discuss in The Freud Files, the legend of Freud as the creator of psychoanalysis persists to this day, and is immortalized in our books, films, and art. Richard...
In an exclusive interview with author, Robert Cannon, he talks of his inspiration in writing his latest book, ‘Opera’, and creating the first ever degree course in Opera Studies. You created...
“Everything in moderation” is still a popular adage today, suggesting prudence and temperance, but in early modern England, such a concept had decidedly darker roots.
In the days leading up to last week’s Iowa caucus, it was hard to pick a front-runner, and for good reason: Mitt Romney edged out second-place Rick Santorum by only a handful of votes. But all of the candidates have consciously and actively courted a polarizing group throughout their campaigns: the tea party movement.
Dateline: Oak Park, Nov 3 Back to where it all began, for Ernest. The Ernest Hemingway Museum in Oak Park, hosted by the Ernest Hemingway Friends of Oak Park, was a great way to end Sandy’s tour....