The desert lands now controlled by the United States were cast by early settlers as empty places, a tabula rasa, and as no one’s land, terra nullis. Almost five years ago, when... Read more »
Most nights this summer I became someone else. It was ritual, art: the lights dimmed, Tears of the Kingdom on the screen, my thumbs nudging the sticks on the controller to move... Read more »
On April 20, 1963, Las Servidoras, a Brooklyn-based scholarship-granting organization created by Afro-Caribbean Panamanian women who migrated to New York starting in the late 1940s, celebrated their tenth anniversary. As part of... Read more »
Every year, we announce our annual Top 20 books, chosen by participating BookBrowse subscribers. But which are the cream of the crop, the favorites among favorites?
From this year’s list,... Read more »
This year’s best books for children address sadness and fear while celebrating love, resilience, hope and joy. In The Big Dreaming by Michael Rosen and Daniel Egnéus (Bloomsbury), two bears are preparing... Read more »
Roman police investigated John Keats shortly before his death, newly discovered 19th-century archive documents reveal. Keats scholar Alessandro Gallenzi discovered an entry in Roman police registers about the poet, under the misspelt... Read more »
“The media have a lot to answer for!” Source link Read more »
Wojnarowicz’s first break came in the summer of 1980, when SoHo News published a centerfold of his photographic series “Rimbaud in New York.” The series was inspired by the artist Ernest Pignon-Ernest’s... Read more »
Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Source link Read more »