Aug 27, 2020 | Poetry and Literature, Review
“Reflective essays explore what it means to be human. Whether he’s swimming in an underwater cave or touring a NASA center in Huntsville, Alabama, ‘a kind of hillbilly heaven,’ these savvy essays are a pleasure. An appealing collection about all the ‘rough and joyful...
Jul 28, 2020 | Poetry and Literature, Review
Maha Ahmed has reviewed A Theory of Birds: Poems by Zaina Alsous in The Adroit Journal. A Theory of Birds, Ahmed writes, is “a poetry collection that insists, in a world where the relentless Palestinian question of return exists alongside the marketed...
Jul 21, 2020 | Arkansas and the Region, Chronicles of the Ozarks, Review
Yesterday Today: Life in the Ozarks, Catherine S. Barker’s 1941 book drawing on her encounters and experiences as a federal social worker in the backwoods of the Ozarks in the 1930s, has been reviewed in the Missouri Historical Review. “Unlike Vance Randolph and other...
Jun 1, 2020 | African American Studies, Arkansas and the Region, News, Review
“Fugitivism,” Shaun Wallace writes in the May 2020 issue of The Journal of Southern History, “enriches scholarly knowledge and understanding of enslaved fugitives and fugitivity in the antebellum South, introducing individual stories of fugitivity...
May 12, 2020 | Art and Architecture, Food and Foodways, Food Studies, Review
Dr. Natalie Jovanovski has reviewed The Taste of Art: Cooking, Food, and Counterculture in Contemporary Practices, edited by Silvia Bottinelli and Margherita D’ayala Valva, in the January 2020 issue of the journal Food and Foodways. Food and Foodways is an...
