With An Untimely Calendar

In the early hours of 28th July 2016, Colette McCulloch was hit by a lorry and killed on the A1. Eighteen hours earlier she had walked out of the specialist care facility for autis...

This chapter reveals how Pauline E. Hopkins transforms the boundary between slavery and freedom into the source of a paradoxical political hope—indeed, as the best chance for reali...

Abstract The Grateful Dead were one of the most fascinating rock bands and cultural phenomena of the twentieth century. Although they had few mainstream or Top 40 hi...

As singer-songwriter for The Triffids, David McComb wrote what is now considered one of the greatest Australian albums, Born Sandy Devotional (1986), but after the band's breakup, ...

Her unforgettable image is seared into the minds of fans everywhere, and her private life continues to inspire headlines and controversy, but Marilyn Monroe is one of the most famo...

This chapter examines the reasons for the decline of the Maitreya School. It suffered first from a series of unfortunate historical happenstances: the devastation of World War II, ...

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) is the primary agency enforcing campaign finance laws in the US, and it has long been portrayed as a toothless tiger. Given the importance of ...

This introductory chapter outlines the conceptual, historical, and literary stakes of the book’s examination of the place of progress in definitions of democracy. The chapter opens...