Eight Stories Up: An Adolescent Chooses Hope Over Suicide by DeQuincy A. Lezine, PH.D with David Brent, M.D., is both the touching memoir of how Lezine survived the desire to commit suicide and a useful guide that will ease the isolation and hopelessness caused by the thoughts of suicide. Earlier today we posted an [...]

Eight Stories Up: An Adolescent Chooses Hope Over Suicide by DeQuincy A. Lezine, PH.D with David Brent, M.D., is both the touching memoir of how Lezine survived the desire to commit suicide and a useful guide that will ease the isolation and hopelessness caused by the thoughts of suicide. The excerpt below, the preface [...]

What Kirsty has been reading this week.

Mark McNeilly criticizes civic knowledge of American citizens.

Herbert Ford introduces us to the New Jersey Jewish Film Festival.

Ammon Shea explores cheating in the OED.

An excerpt from Guy de Maupassant’s short story ‘A Nightmare’.

Anatoly answers questions posed in March.

Mark Gregory Pegg helps us understand religious violence with historical perspective.

Ben’s Place of the Week is Argungu, Nigeria.