The Women of Irish Literature
Ireland has long been rightly renowned as a country of storytellers that has birthed such legendary authors as Johnathon Swift, Oliver [...]
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The Other Woman – Brooding in the Land of the Midnight Sun
Sweden has a long and illustrious history of producing brooding, melancholy, reflective artists who create equally brooding, melancholy and [...]
Poet’s Corner: “Out of the Blue” – Susan Moorhead
Out of the Blue He was afraid of bridges. He wasn’t and then suddenly, he was. I couldn’t understand it. My fears are life [...]
Legacies: A Guide For Young Black Women in Planning Their Future
“I am so perfect, so divine, so ethereal, so surreal, I cannot be comprehended except by my permission…”- Nikki Giovanni, poet [...]
Paul Theroux’s Deep South – A Must Read for Presidential Candidates
Presidential debates, both Democratic and Republican, were held in Charleston, South Carolina recently in anticipation of that state’s [...]
Lis Wiehl’s The Newsmakers
I once asked a travel writer if there are stories she wouldn’t cover. Her response was, “I don’t write about Asia because I don’t [...]
Luckiest Girl Alive: A Perfect Life That’s a Perfect Lie
I inspected the knife in my hand. This is the opening line of Luckiest Girl Alive, the debut novel by Jessica Knoll. The actual [...]
The Last Thousand: One School’s Promise in a Nation at War
“If even a single student wants to come to school tomorrow, the school should be open.” It’s a thing many of us take for granted, the [...]
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