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An Interview with Ernest Hemingway’s Son, Patrick Hemingway

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...

20 Jan 2012

The Culture of Freud: Three Visions of Psychoanalysis from the Theater

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...

18 Jan 2012

Robert Cannon talks Opera and creating the first ever Opera Studies degree

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...

14 Jan 2012

Moderation and the Violence of the English Reformation

“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.

11 Jan 2012

The Primary and the Tea Party

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.

9 Jan 2012

On the Road for The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Part Three: Back to Where It All Began

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....

Melissanne S. | 5 Jan 2012

Learning from Papa: Editor Robert Trogdon on Collecting Hemingway’s Letters

Working on The Letters of Ernest Hemingway for the past several years has been and continues to be a truly wonderful experience. Since my graduate school days I have loved working with primary documents—manuscripts,...

Robert Trogdon | 29 Dec 2011

Dickens in 2012

Why do we still care so much about Charles Dickens? That he is a cherished figure around the world is clear from the scale of international preparations for the Dickens bi-centenary of 2012.

21 Dec 2011

David Conway on the absence of Jews in Western art music

Author David Conway talks about writing his latest book Jewry In Music (out now).

20 Dec 2011

Holidays with Hemingway: 1917-1921

Hallmark cards were just getting started when Ernest Hemingway was writing his earliest letters, but Hem sent his own versions of holiday greetings. A look through The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume...

19 Dec 2011

Dr Jacques Pépin on the myths of the AIDS virus

Thirty years since the discovery of AIDS, and despite huge scientific advances made since its discovery, the origins of the AIDS virus continue to puzzle doctors and scientists. In The Origins of AIDS, Dr Jacques Pépin has written an immensely readable and scholarly study that finally provides an answer.

15 Dec 2011

The Young Hemingway Gift Guide

What to get the Hemingway fan for the holidays? The obvious choices might be a good fishing pole, or a few bottles of Ballantine Ale. But why not take some suggestions from Hemingway himself? Read More ?

14 Dec 2011