In 1976 and 1977, over the course of a thirteen-month period, two boys and two girls, ages ten through twelve, were brutally murdered in Michigan's ...

While most people associate Japanese film with modern directors like Akira Kurosawa, Japan’s cinema has a rich tradition going back to the silent ...

Film scholars and fans have used distinctive terms to describe the Classic Hollywood comedian: He is a 'trickster,' a 'rebel,' or a 'buffoon.' Yet the ...

In her book, Geneva Smitherman makes a substantial contribution to an understanding of Black English by setting it in the larger context of Black culture ...

Juan Francisco Manzano (1797-1854), an urban slave who taught himself to read and write, and who ultimately achieved fame as a poet in Cuba's colonial ...

The lively ferment in Etruscan studies, generated in part by recent archaeological discoveries and fostered by new trends in interpretation, has produced ...

In the middle of this century’s first decade, “bromance” emerged as a term denoting an emotionally intense bond between straight men. ...

Although Anne (Chana) Kleiman—who died in 2011 at the age of 101—was the first American-born Jewish woman to publish poems in Hebrew, and ...

On the eve of World War II, Krystyna Wituska, a carefree teenager attending finishing school in Switzerland, returned to Poland. During the occupation ...

Letters to America features the work of poets who have had the courage to write about race with honesty and passion. Speakign from the experience of Black ...