Many evenings, Millie Smiley would suddenly have a desire to run to the local store for provisions for making fudge and for TV dinners. Author Kotulski, her daughter, speaks of these times as strangely comforting and yet simultaneously... Read More

“I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful,” Samuel Johnson wrote in 1750. Dr. Johnson’s eighteenth century vision for biography was not merely that it... Read More

This series of essays goes further than the usual sex, dating, and “you and your cat” writing that readers might expect from a book about being single women. Mapes arranges the short essays, by thirty different authors, in seven... Read More

There are few social theories on which a Victorian male scholar and a modern feminist would agree, but the suppression of women in Ancient Greece is one of them. According to the author, the tendency to mold history to fit a contemporary... Read More

Cape Coast Castle held no princesses or fairytales—only the bleakest nightmare. For 143 years, millions of enslaved Africans passed through its walls on their way to the Western hemisphere and chattel slavery. Situated on Africa’s... Read More

Americans have a long and divided history concerning legal recreational drugs. The twin vices of tobacco and alcohol, paired in the public mind, have lead to a deep cultural divide. Along the fault line created by these substances are... Read More

Is the absence of a few wrinkles worth dying for? A couple in south Florida learned the answer the hard way. Kaplan and his wife Bonnie are upset with themselves, the government, and the doctors they trusted to make good choices, not... Read More

Gay, straight, or otherwise, anyone who picks up a fashion magazine or flips on the television once in a while is probably familiar with the “mainstream” gay male prototype: stunningly handsome, always fashionable, and eternally... Read More