When she ran away the night of our wedding, spooked by unannounced fireworks in rural Massachusetts, she was gone for 29 of the most nerve-wracking hours of our lives. That she came back, scruffy, hungry, and eager to be family, was a blessing. Still. We had hoped and planned and dre...
As Vida Winter unfolds her story, she shares with Margaret the dark family secrets that she has long kept hidden as she remembers her days at Angelfield, the now burnt-out estate that was her childhood home. Margaret carefully records Miss Winter’s account and finds herself more and more d...
Whenever collaboration gave way to domination, Africans were often subject to what John dubbed "intolerable inequalities": His ways of writing on his chosen subject or topic was to search for the truth. He had what might be termed a liberal, even radical, outlook on many social and political...
Adriana De Mauro loves Cesar Braggi, but Cesar, honoring his father's dying wish, allows his brother, Antonio, to marry Adriana. As fate wills, Antonio dies in an automobile accident. Adriana's mourning for Antonio ends when Cesar steps in to rekindle her lust of life. Soon, Adriana begi...
This was done through the Zionist top-down “melting pot” policy in the 1950s–1960s, which sought to replace what was perceived as the submissive, effeminate, and scholastic Diaspora Jew with the masculine, combative, and land-working Tzabar.13 In the process, the diverse identities of the...
While St. Patrick's Day for many in the United States is primarily an excuse to drink, drink, and then drink some more, Saint Patrick himself was vastly responsible for both the Christianization of Ireland, and bringing the name Patrick into vogue. However, the name was not used much on...