Marie Deans was a strong writer, and her words have an immediacy that nicely contrasts with the thorough biography of her life. For about three decades, Marie Deans devoted... Read More

Originally published in English by Putnam in 1949, here’s a WWII concentration camp diary, replete with atrocities and terror, but written by non-Jewish Norwegian Odd Nansen.... Read More

Here’s an idea: let’s delete the word “abortion” from our vocabulary so as to start a more civilized conversation about how to deal with unwanted pregnancy. Both sides... Read More

“A significant cultural shift is underway. More than any other time in human history, people of the ‘Third Age’ are realizing that they can make other choices about where... Read More

Sara Elinoff Acker has been studying relationships, albeit the violent type. In "Unclenching Our Fists", she explores a litany of depressing questions, beginning with why some... Read More

In this revealing analysis of the legal profession, researcher Susannah Sheffer interviews long-time capital defense attorneys with the goal of answering this question: How does... Read More

The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies was founded in the early 1980s by politically conservative law students who considered mainstream legal thought in... Read More

Three remarkable lives, intertwined via social circles, professional achievements, and a shared commitment to progressive ideas: if only this trio were men, everyone would know... Read More

Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) Esad Boskailo survived the inconceivable—six concentration camps. He then managed to reconstruct his life in a new land (the US), learn a new language... Read More

“Let us then hope better of our children, and of our children’s children; let us know, let us know there is cure, there is to be an end to it,” wrote James Agee after a... Read More

Food webs that depend on whale corpses, meadow mice tripping on magic mushrooms, and a mother owl saving her poor, parasitized hatchling with a blind snake are but a few of the... Read More

Very few writers begin their early career with a bestselling novel, a book of poetry, or a reporting gig at a high-end magazine. Often, the first paycheck they earn isn’t from... Read More