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Book Review: Women Making America
Jo Freeman reviews Women Making America,
covering women’s history from the Revolution to the present day. Chock
full of colorful images, it swoops high and low, sometimes mapping the
forest and sometimes looking at a tree. more »
L’Antico, the Sicilian Confucius
Rose Mula writes, "No one who has ever heard it can forget the poignant, Passau du tempu ca Berta filava,
or "The time for Bertha to weave is ended,” roughly equivalent to “Make
hay while the sun shines,” but probably means that synthetic fib… more »
Alaska: "You don't land at the end of the road without a reason"
Kristin Nord writes: Drifters, gamblers, adventurers, dreamers and an astonishing roster of
wildlife. This is the last great frontier, to a great extent, and it
lives up to that billing with its unfolding stories. more »
CultureWatch, February 2009
The Private Patient
by Baroness P.D. James holds our interest by the discovery of not just
the who-dun-it, but the complex motives behind the actions. Anyone who
loves dogs and brilliant descriptive writing will find Sawtelle rewarding. Wallace Stegne… more »
