Sarah Weinman’s The Real Lolita is so entertainingly written, it is easy to overlook the fact that there is only very limited information available about the title character. In the late 1940s, drifter Frank LaSalle convinced eleven year old Sally Read More …
The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian’s Art Changed Science is a juvenile non-fiction book about a female artist born in the seventeenth century who had a scientific curiosity about insects. Long before the field of entomology was established, Maria Read More …
It’s common knowledge that when a large factory closes, many employees are affected and sometimes a city cannot recover from that type of financial loss. Janesville takes a close look at the General Motors plant closure in Janesville, Wisconsin which Read More …
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Under East Germany’s hardline Communist government, the lives of ordinary citizens were bleak. Any neighbor or coworker could be a Stasi informer, and tight family bonds were the only ones that could be trusted. In Forty Autumns, former U.S. Army intelligence Read More …