New York : Spectacular Books, 1998 . First edition. Signed limited edition chapbook from this acclaimed, Pulitzer-winning poet, published by Katy Lederer's small press. Near fine. Item #56078 ISBN: 09...

Groups convene around an interdisciplinary interest and are open to all. Details about meetings and membership are available on each group's page, linked below. The application period for new or conti...

Marquand Library celebrates the art of Japanese publishing in this exhibition with selections from our collection of rare Japanese illustrated books.

Join Günter Leypoldt, in conversation with Juliana Spahr, to discuss his latest book, Literature’s Social Lives: A Socio-Institutional History of Literary Value (Oxford UP, 2025).Literature’s Social L...

A richly illustrated book focused on Black designers, how they shaped the history of modern design, and how their designs in turn influenced modern Black life.   In twentieth-century Chicago, generati...

AI firms destroy physical books for training while Black authors face AI plagiarism claims. This article explores industry biases, the loss of authentic voices, and the urgent need to protect Black li...

Teachers need to model the passion they want to see.

The football team, like Britain itself, is burdened by the dead weight of impossible expectations.

various, but primarily New York : Signet / Grove / Anchor / Collier / Pocket et al. , 1964-1974. Small group of reading copies of works by Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen, Toni Morrison, Lorraine Hansbe...

The author of an exhaustive two-volume biography, he was “fanatical about his approach to scholarship and infatuated with Melville,” a colleague said.

Novel Seminars are intended to return us to the pleasures of classroom discussion. Participants will read the novel in advance, and then gather to discuss it, led by two people who know the novel well...

“Paris est la capitale de l’Amérique latine,” said Mexican essayist Carlos Fuentes

The satirical kernel of Percival Everett’s Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning novel James (2024) is contained in its title. We are used to referring to the eponymous hero as Jim, as he wa...

Author and Director of the Music Cognition Lab at Princeton University Elizabeth Margulis breaks down how music can take us somewhere else entirely in an exclusive piece for PEOPLE in advance of her n...

Many know the story of how Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) was nearly lost to history as twentieth-century scholars misattributed its authorship to Jacobs’s white edit…

The conference will be a space for inter- and cross-disciplinary dialogue amongst graduate and early-career scholars of Black queer/trans life and politics, capaciously defined.

Childhood stories that shape how we understand the world.

Starting in the 1880s, Black performers and those invested in telling stories centering Black people attempted to counter the dehumanizing and harmful stereotypes used to portray Black characters.

Join Edward Jones-Imhotep, in conversation with Adriana Green, to discuss his newest book project, “The Black Androids,” and its adaptation into a graphic novel.Currently in development with MIT Press...

The punk-rock icon and writer has spent more than 50 years in his East Village tenement apartment.

New Restoration

After more than a century of work, the Sagrada Família's central tower is in place. Here's how architects executed the 19th-century masterpiece design with 21st-century tools.

This February 27, join us for a daylong gathering of writers, journalists, scholars, and activists to discuss the history, politics and future of Black Studies.

Applications for the Council’s Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities (IHUM) are now open. Graduate students are eligible to apply to IHUM in their third year of graduate study. Students...

New Restoration

The nearly forgotten Black stars, songwriters and strivers who made Broadway what it is today.

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