By Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello In 1917, as part of the St. Paul Winter Carnival, hundreds of men and women rode triumphantly over the mighty Mississippi from Minneapolis through St. Paul in decorated vehicles as part of a much-celebrated car parade. They wore the robes...
By Herta Pitman Thomas Cromwell died yesterday– and nearly 500 years ago. I knew it would end this way, and still I feel blindsided. I first became aware of him, Cromwell, years ago when I attended weekly Wolf Hall events at Twin Cities Public Television. He...
2017, Candida Moss and Joel S. Baden, 240 pages by Sidney Carlson White Bible Nation: The United States of Hobby Lobby (Princeton University Press, 2017) is a particularly prescient piece of contemporary history that seeks to blend the domains of religious studies,...
by Wilt Hodges I get it. It’s a pandemic, and therefore I’m supposed to be recommending something deep. But the truth is, I don’t want to turn to highbrow literature, right now, or even anything remotely self-help-ish. So I’ll spare you the sanctimonious...
By Mary Turck A “red-and-white-polka-dotted Minnie Mouse dress” stands for Soraya Membreno’s experience in attending a small, elite liberal arts college, as an immigrant from a non-upper-class background. She chooses this dress for graduation, and...
By 신 선 영 Sun Yung Shin I would like to recommend Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong (One World, 2020). Claudia Rankine says, “A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged, and utterly original exploration of Asian American consciousness...
