At first glance, this cowboy comic seems like it belongs on a refrigerator, not preserved in a research library. This is no ordinary eight-year-old’s picture. The creator was none other than Kazuo Ishiguro, the 2016 Nobel Laureate in Literature. Known for complex novels about the
In this episode of Death and Numbers, part of a series on international women’s history, Amy Vidor and Caroline Barta talk about author and activist Charlotte Delbo. Read more: Be sure to read Delbo’s Convoy to Auschwitz (English translation) Caroline Moorehead wrote about Delbo’s convoy
In this special three-part series from Death and Numbers, we’re cracking open cookbooks and archival records to learn about the bond between food and text. The final episode uses the recipe collection to represent the sometimes haphazard, but often meaningful associations created around our closest
In this episode of Death and Numbers, part of a series on international women’s history, Amy Vidor and Caroline Barta talk about author Irène Némirovsky. Read more: To see some of Némirovsky’s works, go to http://www.mjhnyc.org/irene/ Read Suite française by Irène Némirovsky and Le Mirador by Elisabeth
In this episode of Death and Numbers, part of a series for International Women’s Day, Amy Vidor and Caroline Barta talk about Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Read more: Gift a copy of We Should All Be Feminists to all your friends! The entirety of Adichie’s TEDxEuston
This article features the research of Dr. Geraldine Heng, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. Imagine you’re a white, Christian pilgrim traveling in eastern Germany during the 13th century. You arrive at the Magdeburg Cathedral and kneel in
They’re all featured in “Apeshit”–a music video dropped this past weekend during Beyoncé and JAY-Z Carter’s tour. The video introduced fans to Everything is Love, a collaborative album celebrating black identity and fame in 2018 America. “Apeshit” was filmed inside the Louvre museum in front of statutes like
Sylvia Pankhurst, Born Manchester 5 May 1882, Died Addis Ababa 27 September 1960 In front of the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia lies the grave of Sylvia Pankhurst, one of the most famous English suffragettes. At 74, Pankhurst moved to Ethiopia at the
In this special three-part series from Death & Numbers, we’re cracking open cookbooks and archival records to learn about the bond between food and text. Our second episode breaks down how technology influences food writing and criticism by focusing on the effect of visual-based technology.
In this special three-part series of Death & Numbers, we’re cracking open cookbooks and archival records to learn about the bond between food and text. In this first episode, we pair a largely forgotten 17th century French cookbook with Julia Child’s classic cookbook Mastering the Art of
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