May 12, 2021 | African American Studies, American History, Arkansas and the Region, Review
S. Charles Bolton’s Fugitivism is “deeply researched and elegantly written…”
Jan 25, 2021 | News, Poetry and Literature, Review
Zaina Alsous’s A Theory of Birds is a marvel in using scientific theory and classification to explore womanhood, exile, minority experience, the effects of war, and post-colonialism. The poet uses different kinds and classifications of birds as a binding metaphor...
Jan 22, 2021 | African American Studies, American History, Arkansas and the Region, Review
Bullets and Fire is the first collection on lynching in Arkansas, exploring all corners of the state from the time of slavery up to the mid-twentieth century.
Dec 8, 2020 | News, Review, Sport, Sports Studies
“New Orleans Sports is an excellent book overall. It is well written and well researched, and it provides easily digestible insights from several leading scholars of sport history.”
Nov 2, 2020 | Poetry and Literature, Review
The Chemistry of Fire: Essays by Laurence Gonzales, “treats the reader to an amazing alchemy of wordsmithing as Gonzales creates magic in prose,” writes Booklist in a spectacular new review.
Oct 22, 2020 | Poetry and Literature, Review
“As a Palestinian writer, sometimes I am afraid no one will care what I have to say outside of my marginalization — every poem must be about the occupation, must be about expulsion. I fear in reading Abughattas’s work, I’ve zeroed in on those moments, despite poems...