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Interview with Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian about their work on death row and In This Timeless Time: Living and Dying on Death Row in America (University of North Carolina Press, 2012). Originally published in Artvoice (June 21, 2012) . Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian revisit their work on Death Row with In This Timeless Time Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian are two of Buffalo’s most active scholars, writers, and filmmakers. Their curricula vitae might be called impre

Review of Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014); originally published in The Public (December 3, 2014) . J. R. R. Tolkien, the author of, among other things,  The Hobbit  and  The Lord of the Rings  trilogy, is a writer of almost mythic stature, and rightfully so. His fiction essentially founded what is now known as high fantasy—the sort of fantasy literature that does not simply discuss Frod

Published in A Companion to World Literature (Wiley-Blackwell, 2019) ( https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118635193.ctwl0319 ).