Interview by Hannah Sophie Schiffner    Giacomo Calabria, writing under the pseudonym “Jacopo della Quercia,” is an award-winning educator, essayist, novelist, and taught as a scholar with Humanities New York across a decade.  His novels include License to Quill , “a James Bond-esque spy thriller starring William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe during history’s real life Gunpowder Plot,” and The Great Abraham Lincoln Pocket Watch Conspiracy , a “historical thriller” with

Marie Buscatto, Sari Karttunen, and Mathilde Provansal, ed.  Gender-Based Violence in Arts and Culture: Perspectives on Education and Work . Open Book Publishers, 2025.   Book review by Debadrita Saha, Ashoka University   In the aftermath of the #MeToo movement in the Hollywood film industry, the origins of which can be traced to the exposure of Harvey Weinstein’s sexual crimes by women survivors in October 2017, artistic and cultural sectors across the world faced a reckonin

Tea Fit For A Queen: Recipes & Drinks For Afternoon Tea Published in association with Historic Royal Palaces   Book review by Hannah Sophie Schiffner   Tea Fit For A Queen  is not only a cookbook. It is a guide through the history of England and its royal houses. The introduction by Lucy Worsley, Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces in Britain, explores tea’s evolution from a novel and expensive drink to its prominent role in everyday British life. She delves further into

An interview with our NEPCA member and Jane Austen scholar Dr. Zsòfia Anna Tóth Interview by Hannah Sophie Schiffner What draws you to Jane Austen’s work?   I think Jane Austen managed to write about universal truths concerning life, existence as well as human nature in a way that makes all this accessible with a timeless appeal as well as in a transcultural manner. She is read and understood globally even today. Apparently, she was writing about only a handful of people who