"Published in 2000 and now reissued for its 25th anniversary, the book still feels fresh — a wistful, healing story that’s delightful after all these years." Read More at The New York Times Book Review »
Journalism
Teachers Learn the Art of Teaching Civics in a Hot-Button Age
"Civic education used to be a consensus issue, so taken for granted it verged on boring [but] civics education fell into neglect over the past two or three decades....Now teachers also must reckon with the current state of public life in the U.S." Utah Valley University's Center for Constitutional Studies, in partnership with the Quill Project at Pembroke College, Oxford, aims to equip K-12 teachers with the knowledge and skills they need to teach civics in the current climate. Read More at EdSurge »
A Garden Writer’s Novel Bears Fruit
"An apple got Adam and Eve thrown out of paradise. In Linda Joan Smith’s glowing debut novel, a peach shows a 13-year-old girl the way in." I escaped the news for a little while and wrote about THE PEACH THIEF, a lovely middle-grade novel set in 1850 in Lancashire, for the New York Times Book Review. Highly recommended. Read More at The New York Times Book Review »
As Humanities Fight for Support, New Journal Aims to Celebrate Their Role in Public Life
My latest for EdSurge: "A new peer-reviewed, open-access journal, Public Humanities, aims to strengthen the connections between university-based humanities work and the wider world, creating a space for academics and practitioners to share what they do and how they do it. And its creation is a sign of how professors and others in higher education want to make the case that, in spite of perennial laments about the crisis in the humanities, they’re very much alive, especially if you look beyond dismal stats about funding cuts, threatened departments and declining majors." Read More at EdSurge »
