Prof. Bill Sherman was originally scheduled to deliver the 2016 Dalziel Lecture on 20 September, but will now be visiting the Centre in early 2017.  Instead, we are delighted to announce that the 2016 Margaret Dalziel Lecture will be delivered by Prof. Ilan Stavans, the Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College.  His topic will be “Shakespeare in Prison,” a reflection on his experience teaching the Bard to a combined group of Amherst students and prisoners.  His talk should provide much food for thought about what books do in the world.  While he is in town, Prof. Stavans will also give a Centre for the Book talk about Cervantes’ Don Quixote and how that not very special book at the time of publication became a classic.  Further details about rooms and times will appear shortly.