Yesterday, a reporter for the Chronicle of Higher Education contacted me, and my co-bloggers, for an interview for the Rachel Fulton Brown situation. I begged…
Yesterday, the Brooklyn Museum opened Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America. While it does too much to let the police off the hook…
Further Sabbatical Fruits – the first third of what’s bound to be the longest chapter of Book 2, Chapter 2, On Isolated and Feral Children.…
At the tail end of this Europe trip and thinking about talking French. Many of you, me included, have had spoken language mastery for the…
by KARL STEEL My (first) book came out in 2011, the product of a dissertation that took some 4 years to write. Time to degree…
Chapter 3 of the Book Project now exists in a start-to-finish form, suitable for submitting, with Chapter 5, on oysters, for whatever nefarious purposes presses…
The opening to a forthcoming essay, “Nothing to Lose: Logsex and Genital Injury in Peter of Cornwall’s Book of Revelations.” [content note: sexual coercion and…
This morning, the British Library tweeted that a manuscript of Henry of Huntington’s Historia Anglorum, Arundel MS 48, had just been digitized, so, rather than…
Temporary post for the benefit of anyone who wants to read along
What follows is, as the title promises, the beginning of what is, by my current count, Chapter 3 of my Book2 [the next bit is…
