The past really is a foreign country, as historian Jonathan Ablard finds when piecing together the turbulent history of his ancestors in the West and Midwest.

The question, Milanich argues, is not “Who is the father?” but rather, “Who do we want him to be?”

Chia-Chia Lin’s novel captures the bittersweet flavor of Asian-American dreams – those broken and realized alike.

Even as it is a critique of capitalism, Bong Joon-ho’s film is also an immediate, sexual object under capitalism.

Visual media have the advantage of providing quick comfort; if you need a change of mood or just […]

Historian and legal expert Ariela J. Gross opens her 2008 work What Blood Won’t Tell with details from […]

Indie and art house film has always extended the possibility of artistic freedom—at least as much as it’s […]

“Often like a ghost in the shadows, the mother haunts film noir,” observed Kelly Oliver and Benigno Trigo […]