The red book

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Sun rays on a red background. The red book of heroes. 1909. Book cover detail. Internet Archive

The Red Tent illuminates the lives of women who are only briefly mentioned in the context of the men around them in the Bible. Dinah is more than just the daughter of Jacob and sister of Joseph and their many brothers. She is a girl who grows up with four mothers, learning the feminine customs and the skills of midwifery in the red tent to which they all retreat each month. She's also the one whose life determines the fate of the entire family. This fictional imagining of Dinah grants her…

Spec. Coll. copy: Crimson cloth over boards stamped in gold, all edges gilt. Ex libris Bernard M. Meeks

Journalist Scott Carney figures he's worth about $250,000. That's what Carney thinks his body would fetch if it were broken down into individual parts and sold. In Red Market, Carney explores the shadowy but lucrative global marketplace for human body parts.

As a reader, I tend to be a fan of themes. What I mean by that is that I like to read groups of books that go with seasons or events, like reading scary books around Halloween or books set on the b…

The Illuminated Imagination: The Art of C. G. Jung, an exhibition now on view at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Art, Design, and Architecture Museum, through April 28, 2019, shows that the famed Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung had a whole other side to him. Bringing together nearly all of his artwork extant, the exhibit allows a re-examination of Jung's artistic side---and his creations were superbly otherworldy. C.G. Jung (b. 1875, ...

Bound in red-leather, a hand-written and vividly illustrated manuscript by Carl Jung documents what he called his