Learn about the oldest known cookbook by a Black American woman, and why it's being republished for the first time in 160 ...
How Christianity blurred the line between celibacy and androgyny.
The two-volume Gutenberg Bible is part of the collection at the Huntington, and the print along one of the volumes went on ...
By Elisabeth Egan Marcy Dermansky’s novel “Hot Air” plunges two couples — one old, one new ... the desperate caretaker of her child. A new book by the historian Linda Gordon considers ...
In Linda Joan Smith’s “The Peach Thief,” an orphaned girl posing as a boy raids an English Eden. By Jennifer Howard Leonard S. Marcus brings the wonder of a 1968 snapshot to a new ...
I really like writing books where historical human dramas are the center of attention, and that is something I continue to ...
The Rare Book Room is only open on limited hours and may require an appointment, so call ahead before going. The Phoenix Public Library is located at 1221 N. Central Ave. in Phoenix and the phone ...
A PLANNING inspector has been urged to ‘restore a unique piece of English heritage’ and allow homes to be built at Old Sarum Airfield by a lawyer who took aim at Wiltshire Council for presenting ...
A sense of unity and compassion flourished in the face of crisis. Yet we have lapsed into old habits of complacency, division, and hypocrisy. Two events prompt this reflection. The football match ...
March 11, 2025 • Willow Winsham's new book on witches, past and present, offers a fun, fast, well researched historical summary that is also a stunning work of art. February 26, 2025 ...
The Daily Mail Books department chooses their favourite fiction of the century. When 50 American hostages were released on Reagan's inauguration the timing seemed too good to be true. Den of Spies ...
One of the easiest ways to get kids hooked on reading is to get them into a great book series. All it takes is a captivating Book 1, and they're off and running. Fantasy, mystery, science fiction, ...