Through the Looking Glass Book Reviews

In 1883 and American poet called Emma Lazarus wrote a sonnet called The New Colossus . She wrote the poem to raise money for the constructio...

“It’s an unconscious bias. It’s the expectation. You have a lowered expectation when you hear a woman speaking; I think that still goes on. ...

More than twenty years after the death of folk guitar legend Elizabeth Cotten, her music is still heard everywhere. Cotten, who began her pu...

I still remember the first biography - written for youngsters - that I read. My parents bought it for me at the library sale, and it was the...

  I did not grow up with Norman Rockwell's artwork the way so many of Americans did; his art did not make its way to the Middle East. Th...