Search Results: this is how you lose her
-
AuthorEric Foner
…that animated the Civil War and Reconstruction and that have carried through to the present. Throughout his life, he has paid close scholarly attention to African American voices and questions…
-
BookRandom Family
…emergency rooms, prisons and courtrooms. LeBlanc’s close listening produced this extraordinary book, a rare look at the world from the subjects’ point of view. Readers learn that prison is just…
-
EventsCuyahoga County Public Library: Author Richard Kopley
…that dogged his existence—with close readings of his work that focus not only on plot, character, and theme but also on language, allusion, and structure in a way that enhances…
-
BookHalf of a Yellow Sun
…Eastern Connecticut State University. While in Connecticut, she stayed with her sister Igeoma, who runs a medical practice close to the university. Chimamanda graduated summa cum laude from Eastern in…
-
BookThe Association of Small Bombs
…and took close to 3,000 lives. The second event triggered Mahajan’s memories of the first, a largely forgotten attack at the Lajpat Nagar market, where Mahajan’s grandmother had been shopping…
-
BookAke
…in the mid-1990s led to a close government scrutiny of all his activities. The government’s repression forced him into exile from 1994 until 1998, when democratic reforms began in Nigeria…
-
BookThe Old Drift
…British photographer reverberates across three generations and 566 pages. Towering close by is the natural wonder dubbed “Victoria Falls” by David Livingstone, but called Mosi-oa-Tunya or “The Smoke That Thunders” for…
-
BookSimple Takes a Wife
…of a close-knit black community, and he was always encouraged to read. As a teenager, Hughes lived with his mother in Lincoln, Illinois, and Cleveland, Ohio. In Cleveland, he contributed…
-
BookHalf American
…check cargo into the port. He made close friends with a French family. “It was the first time in his life that white people had treated him as a full…
-
BookNegro Politicians
Harold Foote Gosnell was a student and close associate of the politician and political scientist Charles E. Merriam. As a professor in the University of Chicago’s Department of Political Science,…
-
BookMemorial Drive
…arc of the sun west toward home. For several miles we’d drive like that: so close we seemed conjoined, and I could feel her heart beating against me if as…
-
BookSing, Unburied, Sing
…at the University of South Alabama, then Tulane University. “The word ‘salvage’ is so close to ‘savage,’” Ward said in 2014 at the Cleveland Public Library. “It connotes resilience, fierceness…
-
BookThe Jews Among the Nations
The chapters in this book deal with persistent problems of Jewish identity. Kahler claims these can be fully understood only by awareness of the close interconnection between the singular ethnic…
-
BookThe Lost Cities of Africa
…in the group that included his contemporaries and fellow historians, Christopher Hill, Eric Hobsbawm and E.P. Thompson (a close friend of Davidson for many years). These men’s committed, left-wing approach…
-
BookThe Trees
…at Bookforum. “Someone who’s now a friend, a very close friend, when he saw my name – he’s kind of a prickly guy – said out loud to the office…