Starred Review in Publishers Weekly for The Chemistry of Fire

Jul 14, 2020 | Review

“Gonzales, a former National Geographic feature writer, proves himself a chronicler par excellence of nature—including of the human variety—in this excellent essay collection.The psychological nuance and vivid detail throughout will dazzle readers.”—Publishers Weekly...

Fugitivism Reviewed in The Journal of Southern History

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...

The Taste of Art reviewed in Food and Foodways

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...

Fugitivism reviewed in Environmental History

May 4, 2020 | Arkansas and the Region, Review

Kathryn Olivarius, of Stanford University, has reviewed S. Charles Bolton’s Fugitivism: Escaping Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1820–1860 in the April 2020 issue of Environmental History. Environmental History is an interdisciplinary journal that...

Two reviews for Defending the American Way of Life

Mar 18, 2020 | Review

  “The machinations of the role of sport throughout America’s Cold War battles is both familiar and unexplored territory, something that this fine edited collection makes clear. With this set of probing essays, the editors Toby C. Rider and Kevin B. Witherspoon...

Jose Padua interviewed at Rain Taxi

Mar 5, 2020 | Review

“A Short History of Monsters explodes like a cluster bomb of hilarious, acerbic, menacing, satirical, clear-eyed, and self-effacing poetry that uncomfortably lays bare Washington, DC poet Jose Padua’s experiences growing up as a Filipino in a white world and an...