2007 winner Scott Reynolds Nelson’s latest book gives a thorough rundown of America’s history with debt—a history that is as old as our country.
In “A Nation of Deadbeats,” Nelson describes us as a nation of “dreamers and defaulters.” His timing could not be better, as our nation deals with the “fiscal cliff” negotiations.
Watch Henry Louis Gates’ New Series, “Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise”
November 14, 2016
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“An Evening With Rita Dove & Friends” Captures 30 Years Of The Poet’s Greatest Verses
November 8, 2016
Each time poet and Akron native Rita Dove speaks in Northeast Ohio, she begins with an acknowledgement of home. Her…
VIDEO: Mary Morris On Winning 2016 Anisfield-Wolf Award For Fiction
September 29, 2016
Mary Morris spent close to two decades crafting her jazz-soaked Chicago novel, The Jazz Palace, winner of this year’s Anisfield-Wolf…