[…] another of my hats. Long before I took up cameras and activism, I was a student of the ancient Near East, with a special interest in Israel and the Bible. In this article, I […]
The title of this book may elicit wry smiles. Even casual consideration suggests that heterosexuality is doing just fine on its own, without the need for outside encouragement. The authors’ purpose, of course, […]
[…] the de-worming medication they had used on one of their dogs fifteen or twenty years ago. Being online, Niles couldn’t resist looking up “transvestitism” on Wikipedia. Reading about it made him anxious again and […]
How do you read a collection of short stories by one author? Do you curl up with the book the same way you would with a novel, reading one story after another until your […]
[…] index, this valuable book provides narrative history, data compilations, and unexploited documents shedding light on one of the most unusual, controversial organizations of antebellum American military his tory, the short-lived Nauvoo Legion of Hancock […]
[…] Utah, and he lived in his small box of a cabin at Riverbed, fifty miles westward in the desert. Was it her asthma that kept them separate or her desire to support the family […]
Recent years have seen renewed scholarly interest in the tradition of the virtues and vices.This tradition has roots in both Judeo-Christian and Greco-Roman ethics, and reached the height of its Western cultural importance during […]
[…] discs, their cases held together with a rubber band, each marked La Pietà, 1/21/01 in permanent marker. The recording itself is perfectly legal; I arranged for it with an ebullient phone contact at NPR’s […]
In 1971, African-American artist Gil Scott-Heron released a powerful political anthem called “ The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.” Forty years later, in Tahrir Square and Occupy Wall Street, the revolution was not only […]
[…] of Space in Latter-day Saint History and Practice,” Newell gives James’s dictated autobiography a close reading in order to see how she, a black woman restricted from LDS temple ordinances, created a niche for […]