Death in Custody

2023-09-22T16:54:40-04:00September 22, 2023|

We now know some of their names and how they died. Oscar Grant. Eric Garner. Michael Brown. Laquan McDonald. Tamir Rice. Walter Scott. Freddie Gray. Sandra Bland. Alton Sterling. Philando Castile. Stephon Clark. Atatiana Jefferson. Breonna Taylor. Daniel Prude. Antwon Rose II. Rayshard Brooks. Andre Hill. Daunte Wright.

Paradise Lost in Pittsburgh

2023-09-22T16:54:21-04:00September 20, 2023|

To walk through Frick Park – at least for me – is a pilgrimage into Milton's Paradise Lost, read not in words, lines, and stanzas, but rather rocks, trees, and water.

The Complexities of Jewish Identity

2023-09-20T09:23:41-04:00September 15, 2023|

She made a choice in life, and I respect her right to choose to practice (or not practice) a religion that best suits her beliefs. That doesn’t mean I think a pastor should be speaking from a synagogue pulpit on Shabbat.

The Heart of It All

2023-09-15T20:19:05-04:00September 10, 2023|

Set in a failing small town in central Ohio, this excerpt from Christian Kiefer's new novel from Melville House The Heart of It All asks how one manages, in an America of increasing division, to find a sense of family and community. Available September 12, 2023. 

Fly-Fishing in Michigan

2023-09-12T22:56:53-04:00September 2, 2023|

Today, in easier times than those of the explorers on a religious mission and timber men in search of their fortunes, the Pere Marquette is spoken of in hushed tones by those who pursue fly-fishing for sport and amusement, rather than a necessary search for food.

St. Louis Brick by Brick

2023-09-13T10:20:36-04:00August 30, 2023|

To understand the history of St. Louis’s bricks is to unearth systems of power, economy, dispossession, decline, and manifest destiny; the storybook decorative brickwork we see today becomes a tale as complex—and as sinister—as American history itself.

The Cost of Loss at WVU

2023-08-28T09:38:49-04:00August 23, 2023|

Losing the entire world languages program may simplify a spreadsheet, but it will also send talented West Virginians outside state lines for better opportunities.

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