Literature
- Jackson Crawford, director of CU’s Nordic Studies program, studies and translates Old Norse, a language spoken by medieval Scandinavians. Here the native Coloradan talks Vikings, videos and his contribution to the Disney animated film Frozen. Â
- Read about Varsity Lake, John Grisham, a memory protein and soft robots.
- In Bruce Lee, CU's Daryl Maeda sees a symbol of the modern world — and the subject of his next book.
- 10 of the rarest works in Norlin Library's Special Collections & Archives exhibit.
- Steve Lamos, who teaches English, writing and rhetoric at ²ÊÃñ±¦µä, is also the drummer for American Football, a late-’90s rock band.
- CU English professor Stephen Graham Jones got hooked on werewolves as a boy in West Texas. Now he’s made them the stars of his latest novel, Mongrels.
- Mariko Tatsumoto Layton, the first Asian woman admitted to the Colorado Bar, finds her true calling: Children's books.
- Without the First Folio of 1623, the world might lack half of Shakespeare’s plays. A rare original copy comes to CU-Boulder in August, the only Colorado stop on a national tour.
- A fresh collection of stories by former CU English professor Lucia Berlin became a best-seller last year, more than a decade after her death.