Elin Käck discusses the role of American poets’ travels to Europe in the evolution of modern American poetry and literary history in general.
Can the contents of an academic book be expressed by means other than words? In centuries past, it was common…
The guest editors of the Somatechnics Special Issue, ‘Trans Temporalities‘, draw on their inspirations for the issue theme, as well…
By Ben Clements. My Scottish Affairs research looks in detail at recent survey data on religious decline and secularisation in…
In the early years of China’s Civil War, the Communist army and leadership sought refuge from Nationalist troops in the…
Last month we celebrated the writing of Hélène Cixous, both as part of Women’s History Month and of OLR’s…
Who was Richard Owen? Richard Owen (1804–1892) is one of the most important British biologists of the nineteenth century. He…
A woman walks across a bridge. She is looking at her mobile. She seems to be in a hurry. Close…
By Martin Kratz In 1978, Anthony Burgess published several translations of work by the nineteenth-century Roman poet G.G. Belli. Burgess’s…
By Valerie Cumming and Alexandra Kim The year 2017 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Costume as a journal and we…