We are very fortunate that theatrical designer extraordinaire Peter Harvey has made a gift to RBML of his drawing for Tennessee Williams’s “Orpheus Descending,” produced at the Coconut Grove Playhouse in 1958. Tennessee was involved in the production and liked the set very much. Harvey graduated from the University of Miami, Coral Gables, in 1955. […]
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Happy Constitution Day!
Today is Constitution Day, the commemoration of the signing of the Constitution by the members of the Constitutional Convention, in Philadelphia, on 17 September 1787. But that was just the beginning. A long struggle, filled with passionate debate, followed before the Constitution was finally ratified by the United States and a new government was formed. […]
One-Dimensional Man at 50: Herbert Marcuse & the Legacy of the Book that Inspired a Generation
An all-day conference, Sept. 29th, 9am – 5pm Butler Library, Room 523 Free and open to the public. No reservations required. “A comfortable, smooth, reasonable, democratic unfreedom prevails in advanced industrial civilization…” Thus begins the opening chapter of Herbert Marcuse’s landmark study of modern ideology, One-Dimensional Man, first published in 1964. On Sept. 29th, the […]
Book Traces comes to the Butler Stacks on October 8th
On Wednesday, October 8, Butler Library’s open stacks will become both hunting grounds and laboratory. That day we are pleased to welcome Andrew Stauffer, Professor of English at the University of Virginia, and the Book Traces project to Columbia. The Book Traces project is a crowd-sourced web project aimed at identifying unique copies of nineteenth- […]
Commemorating World War I
John Abell, a British artist, selected excerpts from Arthur Graeme West’s The Diary of a Dead Officer (published posthumously in 1919), and created powerful linocuts to go with them. The new edition, printed letterpress by The Old Stile Press, was issued this year in an edition of 150 copies. West managed to enlist in 1915, […]