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Matthew Lassiter’s history plays out in ranch houses, high school parking lots, and courtrooms from Shaker Heights to Westchester to Orange County.

TITLE: “A Life in School: What the Teacher Learned”

July 14, 1939 – August 31, 2023

I met Tom Lin at the Napa Valley Writer’s Conference this summer, where we spoke about our debut books. His debut novel, The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu, about a Chinese orphan raised by a white man to become an assassin in the post-Civil war western United States, won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction. Having thoroughly enjoyed our panel and the book itself, I asked him if we might talk—about the book, about the genre of the Western, and also, about the fiction writing process in ...

From the blog of Brent Chaim Spodek at The Times of Israel

Following three slaves and their experiences in and out of slavery, Stowe's novel deals with the effects of slavery on both blacks and whites in the...

This 1993 feature highlighted a new trend for female-focused westerns with the release of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and The Ballad of Little Jo, and asked whether women could muscle in on cowboys’ territory, or whether the western would forever remain a man's world

If you boil the strange soup of contemporary right-wing ideology down to a sort of bouillon cube, you find the idea that things are not connected to other things, that people are not connected to other people, and that they are all better off unconnected.