In his concise account of the fifty-year crisis (AD 235-285) that threatened the Roman Empire’s survival, Grant concentrates on three factors: weak, short-lived emperors imposed, deposed, and murdered by the military; invasions by... Read More

Kurt Vonnegut once said that everything he had written could be neatly boiled down to a single sentence. After a broad confession like that, a person might respond: Why bother reading the rest of it? Not until the last fifth of the book... Read More

As society changes, giving rise to new perspectives in the way our culture is being shaped, it’s not just the future that needs to be examined. For example, how would a feminist scholar look at the female subject of an 18th century... Read More

Yes, there really were two Brothers Grimm, who collected and published fairy tales from across Germany, and a Hans Christian Andersen, who published numerous tales from his home in Denmark, including those still famous today about an... Read More