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, […]
Prokofiev Archive Received from London
The Serge Prokofiev Archive that has been housed for many decades at Goldsmiths College, University of London, has arrived in RBML and is now available for use by Prokofiev researchers. Constituted in successive stages over a period of 60 years, this impressive collection was gathered by Prokofiev himself and by members of his family, but […]
Comedy, Censorship, Policing — April 21st, 6pm
On Monday April 21st, at 6pm, the Rare Book and Manuscript Library is hosting a significant — and hilarious! — discussion to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the arrest in New York City of comedian Lenny Bruce on charges of obscenity. Our Speakers for the Evening: Martin Garbus, one of the country’s top trial lawyers, […]
Mapping the Bookstore: Retail Cartographies in Antebellum Manhattan
Kristen Highland, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, New York University March 25, 2014 (Tuesday) Butler Library, Room, 523, at 6:00 PM The romanticization of the independent bookstore—haven of booklovers, erudite employees, and serendipitous discovery—obscures the historical reality of selling books—rapid turnover, failure, and looming bottom lines. But bookstores are also more than the sum […]
Lehman Center Event Review
Tracking Changes: Harlem through the lens of Vergara By Elydia Barret Girls and Barbies, East Harlem, 1970 A group of black girls is sitting on the stoop of a building whose crumbled facade is covered in graffiti. They are so absorbed in their play that they practically do not pay attention to the photographer. […]