If you’ve been following this blog regularly, you’ve likely seen a lot of information about the movie tie-in edition of Christopher Isherwood’s A Single Man that we’ve recently published. What hasn’t been covered in any great depth is the fact that this book is a very valuable tool to teach in the classroom. Until now. … More Teachability and Isherwood’s A Single Man
In the wake of the attempted airplane bombing on Christmas Day, Mark Salter has written an op-ed piece for The Globe and Mail to explain new airport security techniques. Salter, who is editor of Politics at the Airport, argues, rather controversially (he admits), that a new piece of technology, the “back-scatter” x-ray (which draws up … More Mark Salter on airport security
One of the most successful films by iconoclastic filmmaker Derek Jarman, Caravaggio (1986), will be screening at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 21st, at The Plaza Theatre in Calgary. The film helped launch the careers of Tilda Swinton, Sean Bean, and Robbie Coltraine, and its title character has been coined by Newsweek as “a bold, … More Caravaggio screening + book launch
Now that we’re back, and well-rested, from the Modern Language Association Convention in Philadelphia last week, we thought we’d share some candid shots taken at the University of Minnesota Press booth: 1: Cary Wolfe poses with the cover poster of his high-in-demand (not to mention hot-off-the-press) book, What is Posthumanism?.2: Adam Gussow checks out a … More From the MLA
