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Individuals and Small Groups in Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust: A Case Study of a Young Couple and their Friends

Individuals and Small Groups in Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust: A Case Study of a Young Couple and their Friends

30 March 2022 Author Interviews

Why I wrote this book by Ben Braber, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Glasgow; author of the forthcoming book Individuals and Small Groups in Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust: A Case Study of a Young Couple and their Friends He raced up the stairs. Blond curls messy as always. The...

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Tasos Leivaditis’ Triptych: Battle at the Edge of the Night, This Star Is for All of Us, The Wind at the Crossroads of the World

Tasos Leivaditis’ Triptych: Battle at the Edge of the Night, This Star Is for All of Us, The Wind at the Crossroads of the World

28 March 2022 Author Interviews

Q1. Who was Tasos Leivaditis? Tasos Leivaditis was a modern Greek poet, short story writer and literary critic who continues to be widely read and loved in Greece, especially amongst the youth. He was born in Athens in 1922, and in fact lived nearly all his life in the capital...

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War and Peace in the Worlds of Rudolf H. Sauter: A Cultural History of a Creative Life | Q & A with Jeffrey S. Reznick

War and Peace in the Worlds of Rudolf H. Sauter: A Cultural History of a Creative Life | Q & A with Jeffrey S. Reznick

15 March 2022 Author Interviews

1 . What is the reason behind the interest in Sauter’s creative life? I became interested in the creative life of Rudolf H. Sauter (1895-1977) while I was completing research for my 2009 book about his famous uncle, the novelist John Galsworthy (1867-1933). Sauter was like a son to Galsworthy...

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‘A Sensitive, Avid and Silent Political Subject’: Roland Barthes, Politics-Polemics-Pandemics

‘A Sensitive, Avid and Silent Political Subject’: Roland Barthes, Politics-Polemics-Pandemics

27 January 2022 Guest Post

by Andy Stafford, Senior Lecturer in French Studies, University of Leeds; author of the forthcoming book Roland Barthes Writing the Political: History, Dialectics, Self. As we emerge now (hopefully!) from two years of the pandemic and regular lock-down, isolation and confinement, the world suddenly can be apprehended, in some sense,...

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May Alcott Nieriker, Author and Advocate: Travel Writing and Transformation in the Late Nineteenth Century

May Alcott Nieriker, Author and Advocate: Travel Writing and Transformation in the Late Nineteenth Century

27 January 2022 Author Interviews

Q&A for Anthem Author Blog Post — Julia Dabbs, May Alcott Nieriker, Author and Advocate How did you become interested in this subject?  I teach a course on “Women & Art” and in a textbook came across a brief discussion of May’s outspoken comments on women’s art studio experiences, which...

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University Press Roundup: Ancient Gilgamesh Dream Tablet, Why Food Matters Apart from Biological Survival, Surviving Climate Chaos

University Press Roundup: Ancient Gilgamesh Dream Tablet, Why Food Matters Apart from Biological Survival, Surviving Climate Chaos

20 January 2022 University Press Blog Roundup

Check out our collection of eight of the most interesting university press blog posts for this month. We aim to keep you informed, engaged and part of the ongoing scholarly conversations. Gilgamesh Dream Tablet—Iraq puts looted artifacts on display  A small clay tablet dating back 3,500 years and bearing a...

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William Blake as Natural Philosopher, 1788-1795

William Blake as Natural Philosopher, 1788-1795

18 December 2021 Guest Post

Drawn to Blake In Ross Glass’s 2020 psychological horror film, Saint Maud, the title character, a hospice nurse who has recently converted to an extremely ascetic form of Catholicism after a hedonistic earlier phase, is given a book of William Blake’s prints (Morton Paley’s 1978 Phaidon edition) by the woman...

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Talk of the Town: Eight Things that Happened in the Publishing Industry in November 2021

Talk of the Town: Eight Things that Happened in the Publishing Industry in November 2021

29 November 2021 Publishing Industry News

Anthem Press has tailored eight remarkable and latest articles that contribute to a round-up of the top news stories in the publishing industry. 1. New Library Design: Spaces that Connect, Cultivate, and Transform Communities As libraries acquire more digital materials, they’re devoting less space to housing physical items. Instead, they’re...

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The Lived Experiences of African International Students in the United Kingdom

The Lived Experiences of African International Students in the United Kingdom

16 November 2021 Guest Post

The Lived Experiences of African International Students in the United Kingdom: Reactions to the Law through the Lens of Precarity and Consciousness By James Marson, Mohammed Dirisu and Katy Ferris The United Kingdom is largely a welcoming place for international students. The country sees the benefit of international visitors engaging...

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Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine

Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine

16 November 2021 Guest Post

Travel writing, as its name suggests, would seem to require travel in order to be effectively produced. After all, how can one write about your experience of visiting foreign lands if you’re unable to travel to them in the first place? Yet, that is precisely the situation that an entire...

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