Book Review: Kiss This Paper

Book review of: Jill Lepore, Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin (New York: Random House, 2013)

Book Review: Motherhood in Dystopia

Review of Future Home of the Living God: A Novel by Louise Erdrich. (New York: HarperCollins, 2017.

Timothy Dwight Encounters the Indians: \u3cem\u3eGreenfield Hill\u3c/em\u3e and \u3cem\u3eTravels through New York and New England\u3c/em\u3e

Late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Americans, much like twenty-first-century Americans, had a hard time imagining how a heterogeneous, mobile and growing population could be brought under one ideological and governmental roof. And for many prominent Americans in the early days of the nation, the lingering issue of the “Indian problem” posed its own peculiar challenges. Timothy Dwight (1752–1817), author, President of Yale College, and minister of the town of Greenfield, Connecticut. Dwight voiced his concerns through a variety of genres, including the pastoral-epic poem, Greenfield Hill (1794), and Travels in New England and New York (1822)

Book Review: Almost Everything: Notes on Hope

Review of Almost Everything: Notes on Hope, by Anne Lamott. (New York: Riverhead Books, 2018)

A Tribute to Charlie Angell

A long-time Book Review Editor for Bridgewater Review, English Professor, former union president and student advisor without peer, Dr. Charles F. Angell passed away on June 13, 2012, just days before our last issue went to press – too soon for us to honor him properly with a tribute, and just plain too soon. What follows are words written by some of Charlie’s colleagues who knew him personally and professionally, and who attest to the deep and lasting effect that he made in his time with us at Bridgewater State