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Elaine Pagels' New 2025 Book on the Historical Jesus (REVIEW ESSAY)

Elaine Pagels' New 2025 Book on the Historical Jesus (REVIEW ESSAY)

Duluth, Minnesota: From September 1987 to the end of May 2009, I taught at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD). Over the years, I taught an introductory-level survey course on the Bible as Literature twenty times. I have discussed my UMD...

Owner:  Rob Kall
Review: 44—The Musical

Review: 44—The Musical

Theater review by Raven Snook In a moment of gaping political wounds and sores, a high-spirited musical comedy about Barack Obama may sound like a balm. Sadly, the overlong and tonally befuddled 44—written, directed and produced by TV writer Eli...

Owner:  Peter Dubens
Book Review-Coming Out Like a Porn Star: Essays on Pornography, Protection, and Privacy

Book Review-Coming Out Like a Porn Star: Essays on Pornography, Protection, and Privacy

The collection, which features first-person accounts from over 50 performers and industry professionals, offers an intimate look at the challenges and triumphs of navigating a public career in a stigmatized field. First published in 2015 and later...

Owner:  Lisa Hickey
Review: Nikos Koundouros’s ‘The Ogre of Athens’ on Radiance Films Blu-ray

Review: Nikos Koundouros’s ‘The Ogre of Athens’ on Radiance Films Blu-ray

Late in Nikos Koundouros’s The Ogre of Athens, Fatso (Giannis Argyris), the owner of a nightclub that’s a front for a two-bit criminal operation, describes himself as “a cog in the universe.” Seemingly everyone else in the film is also searching...

Owner:  Ed Gonzalez & Sal Cinquemani
Author ‘The Boy Who Built a Titanic Raft author’  wins 2025 ANA award 

Author ‘The Boy Who Built a Titanic Raft author’  wins 2025 ANA award 

Award-winning author, Dr Dave Okorafor, has said his debut novel, The Boy Who Built a Titanic Raft, winning the 2025 Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA)/Ngozi Chuma-Udeh Prize was unexpected, but would inspire him to write more. The Association...

Owner:  Salisu Umar, Zainab Suleiman Okino & Ibrahim Sheme
Review of The New Geography of Innovation by Mehran Gul
Q&A: Medill Prof. Jim DeRogatis reflects on career, music criticism

Q&A: Medill Prof. Jim DeRogatis reflects on career, music criticism

Content warning: This article contains mentions of child sexual abuse. Medill Prof. Jim DeRogatis is a longtime music critic; over the course of his career, he’s written for Rolling Stone, the Chicago Sun-Times and The New Yorker. In addition to...

Owner:  Northwestern University
Airbnb host loses perfect rating after guest's 'ridiculous' review of cottage
‘Pluribus’ Review: Vince Gilligan’s Intrepid Sci-Fi Series Is Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts
Bargain books, DVDs and more available at McCracken County Friends of the Library book sale
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