Watch, Read, Listen

Paul Theroux, travel writer and novelist, explains how Jack London’s experiences and observations in the Hawaiian Islands still resonate today, based on Theroux’s own experiences and observation as a 30-year resident there.

Tom Ford, fashion designer and filmmaker, discusses the making of his 2009 film, A Single Man, based on Christopher Isherwood’s semi-autobiographical novel, published in 1964. Isherwood’s archive, including the manuscript of the novel, is part of The Huntington’s literary collections.

Gary W. Gallagher, the John L. Nau III Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Virginia, explores how popular and academic understandings of the Civil War align with, or depart from, the reality of the conflict.

The Blue Boy undergoes its first major technical examination and conservation treatment in public view, in a special satellite conservation studio set up in the west end of The Huntington’s grand portrait gallery.