New book explores the roots of the term “White trash”
Some landless whites in early America who survived war, workhouses, prostitution, and press gangs ditched their poverty wages and constricted lives and lit out for the territories.
Author Roy Speckhardt: “Can we create change through humanism?"
"Humanists understand that this is the only life we have, and this planet is the only place we have to live it."
China Miéville’s postmodern fantasies in “Three Moments of an Explosion”
The contemporary British fantasist China Miéville's collection of short stories is a diverse mix of styles.
