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Illustration from the “Hobo” News 2:2, May 1916, p.14. From St Louis Public Library, scan taken by Owen Clayton. Travelling wanderers, whether called vagabonds, tramps, hobos or something else, have long held a romantic mystique in America culture. In the famous song King of the Road, for example, Roger Miller encapsulates the carefree life of […]
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In a 2014 conversation in Chicago, Art Spiegelman summarized his understanding of the path taken by comics, once known primarily as cheap and popular entertainment: “[W]hen something is no longer a mass medium, it has to become art or it dies. I figured it was necessary for comics to find their way into libraries, bookstores, […]
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In Vikings: Valhalla, the drama television series created for Netflix, one of the central characters is Leif Eriksson, who comes from the outer fringes of the known world, along with other Norse Greenlanders. While the representations in the series may be fanciful, the existence of Norse inhabitants in Greenland is a historical fact. In the […]
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I spent the dark and snowy winter months that began 2021 under lockdown in my mother’s house in rural Wales. My mother, however, was not there: she, suffering from Alzheimer’s, was confined in a care home in the next town, unable to receive visitors for fear of Covid and unable, also, to understand what was […]
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On the very day that Cambridge University Press listed my Coleridge and the Geometric Idiom: Walking with Euclid in its “Most Recently Published Books” announcement, I opened an electronic version of in The New York Times (nytimes.com April 7, 2023) and found, to my delight, an opinion guest essay written by the mathematician Sarah B. […]
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Iranian literary historian Muhammad-Taqi Bahar (1885-1951) together with Pakistani political and literary figures
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With the right light shone upon them, small objects cast large shadows. So it is with the American Short Story, a genre whose outsized presence in American literature – where it is a common feature of university curricula – and capacity to incorporate diverse voices and experiences, often belies its necessary brevity and neglect by […]
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For one of the first of the over 250 drawings that Rockwell Kent made to illustrate Herman Melville’s Moby Dick (1851) in 1930, he propped Ishmael up on his elbows, lying on his belly on a grassy hill. This is the famous opening scene of the novel, in which Melville’s narrator says: “Whenever I find […]
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