By the time of her death at the age of forty-eight in Serowe, a village in Botswana, Bessie Head had gained recognition as a writer of extraordinary power and insight. In her concern with women and madness in A Question of Power (1973), Charles Larson cl...

When Bessie Head died in 1986 at the age of forty-nine, she left a legacy of diverse writings including three novels, a volume of short stories, an oral history, a reconstructed history of nineteenth-century southern Africa, and three volumes of collecte...

When Bessie Head died in 1986 at the age of forty-nine, she left a legacy of diverse writings including three novels, a volume of short stories, an oral history, a reconstructed history of nineteenth-century southern Africa, and two volumes of collected...

My husband and I have been together for almost six years.We started dating a year or two after college. I studied business in school, and landed a job with a good salary and many perks. My husband studied literature, and worked in an industry...

SIGNS OF LIFE Last year the Cape Coral area of Florida had the highest foreclosure rate in the country. Banks moved to seize more than 1 in 10 residential properties in the Gulf Coast community of 165,000. The reverberations are still being felt. Newly...

Peter the Great probably never had a Prufrock moment. He traveled incognito to Amsterdam and worked as a ship’s carpenter to learn the trade. Then he went home and built a navy. He learned to dance, make cheese and extract teeth. He led armies against...