A Florida JCC canceled a Jewish author’s talk because her book mentions slavery. The JCC later issued a public apology and re-invited the author, Rachel Beanland, but she declined to accept. Beanland, ...

Francesca tells Eileen, “So, across Italy, readers are asking themselves if they’re reading truth or fiction.” Eileen replies ...

The lineup: Molly Beanland (voice, music). The background: Last Friday night we stood for several hours in the Electric Ballroom in London as 1,500 people went gaga, not to Lady Gaga, no, to a ...

The story is drawn from Beanland's own childhood, which she later learned "had actually been a lot more complicated — and contentious — than I realized" The novel follows Eileen O’Malley, 23, who is ...

(JTA) – A South Florida Jewish community center has landed in the middle of the state’s culture wars after canceling a talk by an author whose novel focuses on race in America. The Mandel JCC in West ...

Good historical fiction must bring to the page something that really happened while also filling in the blanks and treating character development, tension and even dialogue the same way fiction does.

The conceptual theory that underlies "jambands" goes back more years than I care to detail. As Bob Weir never fails to point out when prompted, the Grateful Dead did NOT invent the art of ...

'The Half Life' centers on a Navy community on an Mediterranean island, where dreamy life on the water is not quite what it seems Rachel Beanland's own experience as a "military brat" set the stage ...