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Grace E. Jackson
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O’Brien’s ‘Mrs. Adams’ Envisions A Nuanced Past
In “Mrs. Adams in Winter: a Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon,” against the background of Adams’ troubled marriage and peripatetic life as a diplomatic wife, British historian Michael O’Brien marshals an impressive array of sources in order to recreate Mrs. Adams’ journey across Europe.
Goodman's Detailed 'Devil'
British historian Jordan Goodman offers a dispassionate account of Casement’s struggle to expose and put an end to the atrocities wrought by Arana’s company in the Putumayo River Basin of northern Peru.
Violence Penetrates Society, the Psyche in ‘Armies’
'The Armies' by Evelio Rosero (New Directions)
A Haunting Magnum Opus
“Our concern with history… is a concern with preformed images already imprinted on our brains, images at which we keep ...
‘The Wire’ Lays It On the Line
Sprawled on a couch, bloodshot eyes fixed on the screen, five hours into the third season: this is not the ...
Armitage Arms Poems with Power
British poet Simon Armitage has had a prolific writing career. Beginning with his first collection of poems in 1989 and