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BY REBEKAH SHELDON Author of The Child to Come “Maybe it would be better not to survive.” That’s my favorite line from The Child to Come th ...
In latest Sherlock Holmes in Minnesota installment, the typically flawless Holmes is plagued by doubt and illness.
BY LARRY MILLETT In his four novels and 56 short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle always depicted the great detective in th ...
Throwback Valentine’s Day: A bittersweet collection of Prince’s finest love songs
BY JIM WALSH On Valentine’s Day 1996, Prince married Mayte Garcia at Park Avenue Methodist Church in South Minneapolis. In honor of the funky nupt ...
"Playing Indian" and the US colonial imagination.
BY STEVEN SALAITA A few months ago, The Intercept published an eye-opening investigation into alleged war crimes perpetrated by the famed Navy SEA ...
Manifold Beta Now Available
Manifold is an intuitive, collaborative platform for scholarly publishing. With iterative texts, powerful annotation tools, rich media support, and ro ...
"We're just Potato Famine Irish."
BY NORA MURPHY “We’re just Potato Famine Irish,” declared my grandfather when, as a child, I asked him about our family’s roots in Ireland. ...
#UPWeek: Citizenship in a Time of Wageless Life
Ian Shaw, The University of Glasgow Marv Waterstone, The University of Arizona  Eight men own the same wealth as half the world, and one in 10 people ...
Carelessness and fate: One man's survival on the open sea
Built to haul enormous cargo tonnage to ports all around the Great Lakes, the Morrell was one of only a handful of 600-foot freighters at the time of ...
Frankenstein and anonymous authorship in eighteenth-century Britain.
BY MARK VARESCHI University of Wisconsin–Madison Having celebrated its 200th anniversary in 2018, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is perhaps one of ...