This is a guest post by Donald G. Nieman, author of The Path to Paralysis: How American Politics Became Nasty, Dysfunctional, and a Threat to the Republic. Most Americans say they’re disgusted with a political system that’s polarised, nasty and…
Month: October 2024
Setting the Record Straight
Dubai-based Art Historian Maie El-Hage speaks to Sophie Kazan Makhlouf about her forthcoming book, The Development of An Art History in the UAE: An Art Not Made To Be Understood. ME-H: Though I know you have been writing articles and…
Café Reflections: Gothic and the Nordic Countries
This is a guest post by Robert William, author of Nordic Terrors: Scandinavian Superstition in British Gothic Literature Sipping coffee in a street café in Copenhagen on a radiant August day, I found myself surrounded by laughter, the hum of…
Representing Appalachia
This is a guest post by Sarah Robertson, author of Gothic Appalachian Literature ‘Backwards’. ‘Hillbillies’. ‘Trash’. You’ve heard them all before: the derogatory labels commonly bandied about when discussing Appalachia. In 2016, Appalachia became the nation’s boogey monster once again,…