Friday, 19th February 2016
I spent much of the week before last in airports and railway stations. First destination was Stuttgart, where I press-passed the illustrations for H. G. ...
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The Simple Bard
Kathleen Jamie explores how the poet Robert Burns found fertile ground for his imagination in the soil of a failing farm. In Spring ...
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Friday, 8th January 2016
It has been a momentous week, with one major project finally coming to an end, and another getting under weigh. Just before Christmas, this imposing ...
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Some Thoughts on Translating Tolstoy and Others
Alongside Larissa Volokhonsky, Richard Pevear has translated numerous Russian novels, including The Master and Margarita and War and Peace. He writes here of the complexity ...
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Colouring the Rainbow
Maria Tatar, John L. Loeb Professor of Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University, falls under the spell of illustrations as she explores their unique ability ...
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Reproducing Songs of Innocence and of Experience from the finest copy
Folio’s edition of Songs of Innocence and of Experience is reproduced from one of the finest surviving copies, known as ‘Copy W’, now held at King’s College, University of Cambridge. In this blog, Folio’s Production Director Kate Grimwade explains how she matched our edition as closely as possible to Blake’s original manuscript.
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‘These illustrations look like the inside of my own head’
In this blog, Becky Chambers, author of The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, shares her reaction to seeing some of Zoë van Dijk’s vivid illustrations for the Folio edition of her incredible novel.
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Which Marvel Hero would you invite for the holidays?
Depending on your family traditions and the extent of your invites, festive dinners can either be a raucous free-for-all or a calm culinary extravaganza. But whatever the scene, every dining table would be livened up with a Marvel Super Hero. From extraordinary strength to healing potions and a magic hammer, scroll down to discover who could be tucking into turkey at your house this year.