My memoir continued, this time looking at my relationship with Julia during our grad school years in Atlanta.
Author Archives: Robin Bates
How Sociopaths Like DJT Escape Justice
Brundage’s magnificent crime novel “All Things Cease to Appear” frustrates our longing for accountability—as does DJT.
Historical Fiction Is about the Present
Two recent historical novels, about Irish Boston and Bleeding Kansas, capture today’s tumult and they look backward.
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The Bus Boycott’s Invisible Actors
Rita Dove’s “Claudette Colvin Goes to Work” honors those anonymous actors in significant historical change.
Jesus Christ the Apple Tree
“Christ the Apple Tree,” an 18th century poem turned into Christmas carol, may have pagan origins.
Hegseth, Banquo, and Murders at Sea
Pete Hegseth denying he gave the order to kill survivors of a Navy attack is reminiscent of Macbeth distancing himself from Banquo’s murder.
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Stoppard (R.I.P.) and a Cancer Discovery
An instance of Arcadia by the recently deceased Tom Stoppard leading to a cancer breakthrough
