Jan 20, 2017 | News, Review
“In a second collection that beats with multiple hearts, Givhan (Landscape with Headless Mama) addresses complicated familial identity, writing of her own Mexican-American background, her mixed-race husband, and their adopted black child. The book is full of...
Aug 31, 2016 | News, Review
In E-mails from Scheherazad (2003), Kahf introduces the legendary storyteller to the electronic trappings of contemporary life, yielding poignant and humorous cultural commentary. In this new collection of forthright and fearless poetry, Kahf gives voice to Hagar, an...
Aug 29, 2016 | News, Review
Hauser continues to provide the sporting world’s most perceptive boxing reporting, which, fortunately, is collected in an ongoing series from the University of Arkansas. This volume brings together Hauser’s work in 2015. He writes vivid summaries of key fights,...
Aug 24, 2016 | News, Review
Every student of Arkansas history — and anyone interested in sectional conflict and the Civil War more generally — will welcome Slavery and Secession in Arkansas: A Documentary History… This superb anthology doesn’t cherry-pick but instead offers readers the entire...
Jul 25, 2016 | News, Review
“…[A] fine and thorough overview of the military history of the Civil War in the Indian Territory, one that captures the different levels of politics, culture, and history that were pulling on Native communities at the time of the war, and that ultimately makes...
Jul 6, 2016 | News, Review
“Race and Ethnicity in Arkansas is an exceptionally strong contribution to the history of Arkansas and the U.S. South. It is rare to find an edited volume that is so superbly structured and that contains uniformly strong contributions. There is not a weak link among...