For years, Roth couldn’t get beyond the premise for his novel “American Pastoral.” Then he stumbled on a copy of “Shtetl in the Adirondacks: The Story of Gloversville and Its Jews.” ...

In this intimate drama based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, a Jewish-American businessman finds his seemingly perfect life unraveling after his teenage daughter commits an ...

These terraforming stories often deployed pastoral motifs and structures to engage in socio-political enquiry. In his essay on novelistic chronotopes, Bakhtin classifies the pastoral as a subset of ...

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Elwood (Ethan Herisse) is a smart, idealistic kid who is wrongly shuttled off to the abusive confines of a reformatory school ...

Using evidence from homilies, canon law, saints' lives, and liturgical and penitential sources, the articles collected in this volume focus on the ways in which such developments were reflected in ...

The American crow is the “default” crow across most of North America. It overlaps broadly with the common raven, and to a lesser extent with the Chihuahuan raven, fish crow, and northwestern crow.

The Great American Read was an eight-part series with viewer participation to select America’s favorite novel, told through the prism of America’s 100 best-loved novels. It investigated ...

People take those classics, mix ’n’ match ’em and then slowly (or quickly) turn them into definitive American dishes. And then we oftentimes send the reformulated food back out into the ...

Monica is an entertainment reporter covering TV, film, and music. American Nightmare is taking the true crime community by storm. If you’ve finished the shocking three-part saga on Netflix ...