Editing the History of Canadian Literature

Manuela Constantino of the quarterly Canadian Literature picked the perfect interview subjects for their latest issue: editors and contributors from The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature, including our own Sarah Stanton.

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Where’s the Poe Toaster?

Every year, on Edgar Allen Poe’s birthday, mysterious visitor leaves cognac and roses on his grave. This year it didn’t happen, for the first time in 60 years.
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Beckett’s Meditations on Music

The Letters of Samuel Beckett contain a fair amount of Beckett’s reflections on musical performances, and critic Alex Ross notes several of them on his New Yorker blog:
In this week’s issue of the magazine, I write about Katie Mitchell’s theater piece “One Evening,” an intermingling of Schubert’s song-cycle “Winterreise” and texts by Samuel Beckett. When [...]

Rain Taxi reviews Wajnryb

One of my favorite Cambridge books I’ve read in the past couple years is Ruth Wajnryb’s You Know What I Mean?. Wajnryb is an Australian language expert who parses the slipperiness of meaning in general.

Samuel Johnson and the Ossian Fraud

3rd Century Gaelic-language poet Ossian lies at the center of a giant case of 18th Century copyright infringement! Author Thomas Curley tells the story of Samuel Johnson’s outrage with Macpherson’s fabrications in this video.