‘A Farewell to Arms & Other Writings’ Review: Hemingway Arrives
E rnest Hemingway’s World War I novel, “A Farewell to Arms” (1929), is an exception among products of early 20th-century ...
Why Children Love Edward Gorey: A Centenary Tribute
He made the uncanny cool for a kid like me, whose dollhouse contained a miniature Ouija board in the child’s room and a ghost made of Kleenex and cotton balls in the attic.
Verdigris Ensemble mounts opera about female explorer who passed herself off as a man
A still from one of the projections in Verdigris Ensemble's production of "Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of ...
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The Trailblazing Black Librarian Who Rewrote the Rules of Power, Gender and Racial Passing
Belle da Costa Greene, the first director of the Morgan Library, was a Black woman who passed as white in the early 20th ...
America Magazine18h
The rise and fall of Catholic wins at the Oscars
The stories about Catholics that Hollywood tells—and awards—has as much to do with what is happening with the church ...
The Black librarian who rewrote the rules of power, gender and passing as white
Just Because I am a Librarian doesn’t mean I have to dress like one.” With this breezy pronouncement, Belle da Costa Greene handily differentiated herself from most librarians. She stood out for other ...