

Literature and Poetry
“While These Visions Did Appear”: Shakespeare on Canvas
A campus-wide, term-long series of exhibitions, plays, concerts, film, and lectures will celebrate the university’s wealth of resources for the study and enjoyment of the works of William Shakespeare more »
American Masters: Margaret Mitchell and Harper Lee
Though their successes were nearly 30 years apart, Margaret Mitchell and Nelle Harper Lee share much in common: two Southern white women who each won the Pulitzer Prize for their debut novels — Gone With the Wind and To Kill a Mockingbird more »
Why Write? It's Like Everest — Because It's There
All the words that have instructed and inspired and comforted and exhilarated through all the years of a long life prove to me that if I could find the readers, even I could add to that legacy. I care about how words can conjure and reveal; I respect the fact that if you think (as opposed to dream or imagine) you need words. more »
Culture Watch Reviews
Daniel Handler specializes in a light-semi-irreverent tone that manages also to be perceptive and truthful, even as it entertains, in Why We Broke Up, a story of teenage love gone awry. Richard Morgan has crafted a story of the life of Daniel Boone in Boone, A Biography, to rival the best fiction, while demonstrating the most diligent scholarship and devotion to primary sources any reader could ask for. more »