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June 14, 2014
in American History, Social Science

Five Reads for Father’s Day

June 14, 2014
in American History, Social Science

Father’s Day is this Sunday, and to celebrate we bring you five books about fathers and family. These are books about American Revolutionaries, innovative photographers, domestic Victorians, virtual currencies, and literary Jews for any family to enjoy. Founders as Fathers: The Private Lives and Politics of the American Revolutionaries by Lorri

January 4, 2014
in Humanities, Literature, Religion

For the Introspective Writer

January 4, 2014
in Humanities, Literature, Religion

No one sings as purely as those who inhabit the deepest hell—what we take to be the song of angels is their song. —Franz Kafka in a letter to Milena Jesenska, August 26, 1920 The anguished metaphor that Kafka describes to Jesenska is perhaps characteristic of his life and work.