The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts, by Gregg Hecimovich (Ecco). In 2002, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., published an annotated edition of “The Bondswoman’s Narrative,” a novel thought to be the first... Read more »
Transcript Hello everyone. My name is Destiny Wright. Working memory can be thought of as the brain’s sticky notes allowing us to briefly hold and manipulate information. We use it to plan... Read more »
Let the Light Pour In is “an experiment in hope”. For 10 years, the My Name Is Why author had been rising at dawn each day, writing a poem and posting it... Read more »
A day-by-day account of life in Gaza since the 7 October attacks, written by Palestinian Authority minister of culture Atef Abu Saif, will be published next month. Comma Press will release the... Read more »
“There I go again—it’s 2024 and I’m still writing checks.” Source link Read more »
In 2002, three months after Milton Friedman turned ninety, a celebratory conference was convened at the school that had become synonymous with his ideas. Ben Bernanke, then a member of the Federal... Read more »
75th Anniversary Overview In celebration of the National Institute of Mental Health’s (NIMH) 75th Anniversary, NIMH Director Joshua A. Gordon, M.D., Ph.D. , and Deputy Director Shelli Avenevoli, Ph.D. participated in a Reddit “Ask Me Anything”... Read more »
Frederick Douglass dreamed about Haiti. He longed to stand on Haitian soil—the only place in the Americas where enslaved Africans had fully eradicated slavery, ousted European colonialism, and established an independent nation.... Read more »
Jonathan Glover’s new book, on the seemingly intractable nature of the Israel-Palestine conflict, quotes George Orwell on the Spanish civil war: “Everybody believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in... Read more »