December 2020

Until March, my reading this year hummed along as usual: books for the seminar on biography I taught, background reading for assignments, the occasional book club...

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When Benjamin Day came up with the plan of selling newspapers to the poor in 1833, he did so with the ravenous maw of poverty threatening...

Folktales are powerful because of their purpose: they teach moral through warning. This is what could befall you, they say, this is what happens to badly...

On August 24, 2014, in the early hours of the morning, Melina Romero disappeared after celebrating her 17th birthday at a bowling alley in her hometown...

I haven’t read a book in almost two months. Usually by this point in the year, I have surpassed my reading goal by 10–20 books.  This year,...

Content Warning: The following contains a discussion of violence, torture, death from disease, and imprisonment.  Pestilence by Laura Thalassa “I think I’ve come to the end...

It struck me recently that B-list comics villains, especially those with roots in the DC mythos, have enjoyed a renaissance since the advent of The CW’s Arrowverse. Their...

Dive into a world of Korean myth and science. Take a look at the cover of Folklorn by Angela Mi Young Hur, out April 2021. And...