Novelist París (Ramifications) reflects in these striking essays on the complicated relationship between place and identity. Traversing the cities “that have marked my life,” Continue reading »
Vicious and Immoral: Homosexuality, the American Revolution, and the Trial of Robert Newburgh
John Gilbert McCurdy
The 1774 trial of British army chaplain Robert Newburgh (1742–1825) for “vicious and immoral behavior” sheds valuable light on contemporaneous ideas about homosexuality, Continue reading »
A Gentleman and a Thief: The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue
Dean Jobb
Jobb follows up The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream with a top-shelf work of true crime focused on lovestruck “gentleman thief” Arthur Barry (1896–1981). A con artist since his Continue reading »
The Countryside: Ten Rural Walks Through Britain and Its Hidden History of Empire
Corinne Fowler
“Colonialism... affected the remotest corners” of Britain’s landscape, demonstrates historian and curator Fowler (Green Unpleasant Land) in this revelatory Continue reading »