A New Kind of Renaissance: Touring Harlem
by Jennifer Ciotta As I ventured out into the freezing cold this past Saturday, I almost ran back inside, put off by the wind gusts…
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Finding Mark Twain’s Hannibal
by Terrell Dempsey I have spent three delightful days in Hannibal, loitering around all day long, examining the old localities and talking with the grey-heads…
Faith Ringgold’s Tar Beach, A Literary Review
by Mallory Sweeney Many times in children’s literature, the audience is targeted through a variety of simplistic yet effective methods. Children are the main characters…
The Studio Museum in Harlem Presents Africa Comics
by Jennifer Ciotta Days of the Harlem Renaissance still haunt West 125th Street with sites such as the Apollo Theater; however, another landmark goes virtually…
A Revealing Interview with Terrell Dempsey, Author of Searching for Jim: Slavery in Sam Clemens’s World
by Jennifer Ciotta Mark Twain expert Terrell Dempsey uncovers the truths of African American slavery in Hannibal, Missouri, Sam Clemens’s hometown, in Searching for Jim:…
He Can’t Go On, He’ll Go On: The Legacy of Samuel Beckett
by Mallory Sweeney I found, that the best way to get to know the artist, is to stare at the piercing eyes and cavernous wrinkles…
Auvers sur Oise: The Original Impressionist Landscape
by Lesley Stern I had an uncanny sense of deja vu when I first laid eyes on Auvers sur Oise thus I could not figure…
Ilmenau: Walking in the footsteps of Goethe
by Zac Steger The small university town of Ilmenau sits at the edge of the Thuringian Forest in central Germany, taking its name from the…
J.R.R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis: A Literary Friendship and Rivalry
by Ethan Gilsdorf Oxford–I had vowed to take Dead Man’s Walk. To sneak into Gothic-trimmed courtyards. To wander beside the shadow of J. R. R.…
I Am Providence: The City that Made H.P. Lovecraft
By Robert Anasi I never can be tied to raw new things, For I first saw the light in an old town, Where from my…