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Short History of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
The publication of Chinua Achebes Things Fall Apart (1958) is heralded as the inaugural moment of modern African fiction, and the book remains the most widely read African novel of …
Emperor Haile Selassie
Emperor Haile Selassie was an iconic figure of the twentieth century, a progressive monarch who ruled Ethiopia from 1916 to 1974. This book, written by a former state official who …
Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Cleveland's Free Stamp
In 1985, the Sohio oil company commissioned Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen to design and construct a large outdoor sculpture for its new corporate headquarters in …
Paths toward the Nation
In the early and mid-1940s, during the period of British wartime occupation, community and religious leaders in the former Italian colony of Eritrea engaged in a course of …
All about Flowers
A nineteenth-century entrepreneur's bold, innovative marketing helped transform flower gardens into one of America's favorite hobbies. "e;There is much that is hard and …
Trick of Sunlight
In his new collection of poems, Dick Davis, the acclaimed author of Belonging, addresses themes that he has long worked with-travel, the experience of being a stranger, the clash …
Maggie Boylan
Set in Appalachian Ohio amid an epidemic of prescription opiate abuse, Michael Hensons linked collection tells of a womans search for her own peculiar kind of redemption, and …
Conjugal Rights
Conjugal Rights is a history of the role of marriage and other arrangements between men and women in Libreville, Gabon, during the French colonial era, from the mid-nineteenth …
Plot Thickens
In the early 1800s, books were largely unillustrated. By the 1830s and 1840s, however, innovations in wood- and steel-engraving techniques changed how Victorian readers consumed …
On the Desire to Levitate
On the Desire to Levitate is the first collection of poems by Alison Powell. This striking collection includes vivid, unflinching meditations on aging, mythology, poetry, and …
Brides in the Sky
Each of the crystalline worlds Cary Holladay brings us in the short stories and novella that make up Brides in the Sky has sisterhood, in all its urgency and peril, at its heart. …