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.

Read about Varsity Lake, John Grisham, a memory protein and soft robots.

By Mary Klages

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 CU Boulder, 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.