Showing posts with label historical fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label historical fiction. Show all posts
30 June 2026

Two Takes on Charity and Sylvia

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In recent years, publishers have worked with historians to adapt their scholarly studies into other types of books, more welcoming to teena...
11 July 2020

Interpreting Incident at Hawk’s Hill through the Autism Lens

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How are we to make sense of the 1971 novel Incident at Hawk’s Hill and the actual 1873 event at its root? In 2004, Prof. Kenneth Kidd w...
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10 July 2020

How a Real Story Became Incident at Hawk’s Hill

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In 1873, a young boy went missing from his family’s farm in Manitoba. After more than a week, a man of Native and European ancestry found h...
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09 July 2020

How a Lost Boy Met a “Kindly Badger”

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Yesterday I quoted two period sources about a Manitoba boy who was missing for over a week on the prairie before being discovered in a badg...
08 July 2020

The Boy in the Badger Hole

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In June 1873, a young boy living on a farm in Springfield, Manitoba , outside Winnipeg, went missing. His family and neighbors searched th...
29 August 2017

No Need to Visit Skull Castle

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Seeing Dirk Gringhuis’s 1964 Mystery at Skull Castle in David Maxine’s collection made me curious about it. Fortunately, David has alread...
30 October 2014

Two Warrior Women

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Tonight I went to two author events, one after another, both about female fighters. One was Jill Lepore’s talk at the Radcliffe Institut...
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25 August 2014

The Sheriff of Loving County

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This New York Times article about radioactive waste and a very small county in west Texas included the photo shown above. You might spot...
23 January 2014

Historical Fiction from Ancient History?

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At the Oxford University Press blog , Yale professor Colleen Manassa suggests that ancient Egypt’s New Kingdom (1550-1070 BCE) saw the bir...
28 February 2013

The Lost Opportunity in Zero Dark Thirty

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In turning the evacuation of six American diplomats out of Teheran in 1979 into a Hollywood movie, Argo had to distort the historical eve...
15 December 2012

I Am [in] “The Greatest”!

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A story I wrote makes its debut today in a new anthology from Ninth Art Press : The Greatest of All Time Comics Anthology , edited by Dan ...
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08 December 2012

Argo Nots

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The movie Argo is a triumph of production design, recreating the look and sound of Teheran, Washington, and Hollywood in 1980. Which is abs...
27 October 2012

Quandaries of Proofs and Historical Proof

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Roger Sutton of The Horn Book just wrote about Unspoken , by Henry Cole, a picture book clearly designed around the myth of quilt patter...
26 December 2011

Cry Freedom

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Over at Boston 1775 , I’ve run an interview with Seamus Heffernan , the creator of a new independent comic called Freedom , set in an altern...
01 August 2011

Rewriting History for Laika

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Back in 2008 I wrote about Nick Abadzis ’s affecting and grim graphic novel Laika , arguing that it didn’t seem like a book meant for young...
17 December 2010

It’s Not Superman (at least as I understand the story)

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I finally figured out what in Tom De Haven ’s It’s Superman! strikes me as a fundamental shift away from the core Superman myth, which of ...
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22 November 2010

Yummy: There Is No Rosebud Here

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I remembered the case of Robert “Yummy” Sandifer from 1994 before reading Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty . I didn’t remember the...
05 August 2010

What’s the Story Behind C. C. Colbert?

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After reading the graphic historical novel Booth , scripted by C. C. Colbert and drawn by Tanitoc, I had a couple of questions. The first wa...
06 July 2010

Crogan’s Moral Uncertainty

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Crogan’s Vengeance , by Chris Schweizer , is a nicely told pirate comic. I especially liked the panels’ timing. There’s a moment on page 56 ...
11 February 2010

It’s a Floor Wax and a Dessert Topping!

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This week’s “Notes from the Horn Book” includes editor Roger Sutton’s quick interview with Matt Phelan , creator of The Storm in the Barn ....