Sixteen-year-old Jolene, named after the girl in the Dolly Parton song, is from a long line of lowlifes, but at least they're musical lowlifes. Her mother is a tanning-salon manager who believes she c
A constant feature of Jewish culture in the medieval Mediterranean was the dedication of panegyric texts in Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, and other languages dedicated to men of several ranks: scholars, commu
Emerging from the back rooms,ultimate insider Michael Decter treats us to a range of raunchy and riveting stories of politics in Canada. From his youth stuffing envelopes for the NDP in Winnipeg to hi
A Children's Book-of-the-Month Club Selection FROM THE BLOG OF CAM WALKER Eagle Tower is just about the most important place in the world to my friends and me. The first Outrider expedition ever w
Interpreting American Jewish History at Museums and Historic Sites begins with a broad overview of American Jewish history in the context of a religious culture than extends back more than 3,000 years
Interpreting American Jewish History at Museums and Historic Sites begins with a broad overview of American Jewish history in the context of a religious culture than extends back more than 3,000 years
This stimulating and graceful book explores Iberian Jewish attitudes toward cultural transition during the 12th and 13th centuries, when growing intolerance toward Jews in Islamic al-Andalus and the s
A volume of selected essays, interviews, curatorial texts, and other materials examines art's intrinsic problems and considers its functions, ethics, and contradictions in contemporary society.
Dreaming of making it in big in Hollywood, 16-year-old Chloe leaves her hometown in Texas and her cheating father behind to venture to L.A. with her mother and twin brother, but things take an unhappy
This intriguing text is one volume in the piece of a multi-year international research project: Inteleg: The Intellectual and Material Legacies of Late Medieval Sephardic Judaism (principal investigat
Baltimore is the cultural hub of Maryland's Jewish community, and for three decades, local legend Gilbert Sandler has chronicled its stories. With this collection of the best of his columns from the B
As Chloe Gamble's career soars, her personal life crumbles when her father tries to gain control of her money, her mother dates a shady producer, and her brother moves away to pursue his own life.
A second installment in a trilogy by the screenwriter of There's Something About Mary finds Chloe struggling to retain control of her meteoric rise to stardom when her twin brother succumbs to the pul
Curators and thinkers about contemporary art consider how to engage audiences in creative forms of protest and advocacy.With the global rise of a politics of shock, driven by nationalist and authorita
