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Read on for an informative, sometimes surprising Q&A with Donald B. Kraybill, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner, and Steven M. Nolt, authors of The Amish, the definitive portrayal of the Amish in America in the twenty-first century. Q: Why did you write this book? A: Mainstream Americans are fascinated by the Amish—and so are we. But despite…
Read on for an informative, sometimes surprising Q&A with Donald B. Kraybill, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner, and Steven M. Nolt, authors of The Amish, the definitive portrayal of the Amish in America in the twenty-first century. Q: Why did you write this book? A: Mainstream Americans are fascinated by the Amish—and so are we. But despite…
By Michele Callaghan, manuscript editor I was in elementary school when I first learned about nouns. The teacher said that a noun was a person, place, or thing. Flipping this around, you can say that people are nouns. You might think this is obvious, even in an era in which grammar has been sidelined to some…
By Michele Callaghan, manuscript editor I was in elementary school when I first learned about nouns. The teacher said that a noun was a person, place, or thing. Flipping this around, you can say that people are nouns. You might think this is obvious, even in an era in which grammar has been sidelined to some…
For many of us, the approach of Mother’s Day prompts a frantic spree at the shopping mall or a quick stop at the florist. But allow it, please, to also inspire a once-a-year parameter for browsing recent titles and perennial favorites on the JHU Press list. From Nancy Demand’s Birth, Death, and Motherhood in Classical Greece…
We have not visited this occasional series in a while, so let’s give an update on what some folks at the Press have read recently or are in the middle of reading. I just started All the Sad Young Literary Men, a novel by Keith Gessen I came upon in a dollar store. I needed…
We have not visited this occasional series in a while, so let’s give an update on what some folks at the Press have read recently or are in the middle of reading. I just started All the Sad Young Literary Men, a novel by Keith Gessen I came upon in a dollar store. I needed…
By Jack Holmes Throughout the year, JHU Press authors, editors, and staff members are on the road, in the air, and on the air, getting the word out about our latest publications. As a new monthly feature of the blog, we’ll offer a round-up of the coming month’s events, interviews, and book signings at bookstores,…
By Jack Holmes Throughout the year, JHU Press authors, editors, and staff members are on the road, in the air, and on the air, getting the word out about our latest publications. As a new monthly feature of the blog, we’ll offer a round-up of the coming month’s events, interviews, and book signings at bookstores,…
Chapter and Verse is a series where JHU Press authors and editors discuss the literary landscape of poetry and prose, whether their own creative work or the literature of others. Guest post by Jean McGarry My relationship with the Baltimore public schools began last year, when, out of the blue, I received an invitation from…