Read on below for a conversation between CavanKerry Press authors Dorsía Smith Silva (In Inheritance of Drowning) and Cati Porter (The Body at a Loss)
Decoding the Hand is an astounding history of magic, medicine, and science, of an enduring search for how our bodily surfaces might reveal an inner
African Studies, Author Essays, Interviews, and Excerpts, Classics, Literature, Medieval and Renaissance
Atlas’s Bones is a major new look at Africa’s influence on European culture and how colonization remade Africa in the image of a medieval Europe.
In his new book, eminent historian Joshua B. Freeman turns his attention to an overlooked feature of the American landscape: garden apartments. He details their
As we continue to celebrate the amazing writers, editors, and translators in our Phoenix Poets series, we’re delighted to highlight poet Cynthia Cruz, whose latest
Faith in the resilience and adaptability of the US Constitution rests on a long history of finding new ways to make the system work. In
In the mid-1950s Baltimore’s Rosemont neighborhood was alive and vibrant with smart rowhouses, a sprawling park, corner grocery stores, and doctors’ offices. By 1957, a
Sugar is everywhere in the western diet, blamed for epidemics of obesity, diabetes, and other modern maladies. Our addiction to sweetness has a long and
We’re pleased to share a short excerpt from A Sense of Space: A Local’s Guide to a Flat Earth, the Edge of the Cosmos, and
In Listening to Beauty: Rhetorics of Science in Sea and Sound, Megan Poole invites us into a moving study of how encounters with beauty advance
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