David Wagoner, 1926-2021 Last December we lost poet David Wagoner, whose literary papers were among the Modern Literature Collection’s earliest and most recent...
Finding James Merrill in the Archive Alex Mouw is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and a Lynne Cooper Harvey Fellow in the Program...
Announcing the 2022 Neureuther Essay Contest Award Winners The Washington University Libraries are pleased to announce the winners of the 35th annual Neureuther Student Book Collection Essay Competition....
Women Who Painted Books The Industrial Revolution created the mass production of books, out of which came the Arts and Crafts Movement and the...
Japanese Book Club Keeps Growing In the summer of 2020, to partially offset the disruptions of the pandemic, I and several Washington University Ph.D. students...
Calling for a New Approach to Data Science If you haven’t read it yet, go immediately and find Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein’s timely work, Data Feminism. Published...
Highlights from the Mike Lützeler Contemporary German Literature Collection Celebrating the somewhat delayed publication of the annual bibliography for 2020 of the Mike Lützeler Contemporary German Literature Collection, here...
Exploring Academic Authorship and Publishing Faculty and researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are invited to attend an information session on Evaluating a Journal...
‘One Book One Community’ Reading at Ladue School District This fall, our neighboring community, Ladue School District, kicked off a new “One Book One Community” book club for its...
Joy Williams Reading Recap & Resources On October 14, 2021, Washington University Libraries partnered with the Department of English to host an exclusive reading and conversation...
Conservation of The Raven Thanks to a generous gift from alumnus Daniel J. Smith (BA economics ’85) and Linda Way-Smith, we were able to...
Reading Recommendations on Goodreads University Libraries has recently created a new Goodreads account to share our staff recommendations, faculty book talk selections, and monthly...