This text analyzes the cultural work of spectacular suffering in contemporary discourse and late-medieval France, reading recent dramatizations of torture and performances of self-mutilating conceptual art against late-medieval saint plays.

Welcome to Purgatory 2.0. We’ll be with you shortly. Every battle needs a battlefield, especially in the eternal struggle between good and evil. But the unfortunate souls who are sent…

In the final months of World War II, the mysterious Bottle Man suddenly appears in the Farnsworths’ neighborhood. Children are fascinated; parents don’t trust him. Where is he from, and…

After an argument with her grandmother at her Maryland home, sixteen-year-old Ginny Marshall - born rotten, according to Gram - gets high and runs away. She turns up on the…

Second Edition: Updated to include Trump re-election, Biden Administration, 2022 War in Ukraine, Green New Deal, and more! Delve into "America Hijacked," a critical and expansive exploration spanning the past…

For use in schools and libraries only. A collection of poems in Spanish and English celebrates the Spanish-American experience of growing up in a dual-cultural environment and includes works by…

The latest on child psychology and the role of cultural and developmental systems Now in its 38th volume, Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology: Culture and Developmental Systems contains the collected…

Love, Intimacy, and the African American Couple lays out specific strategies that clinicians can use in their work with black couples, regardless of the clinician’s own race or level of…