Marilyn Chase 's The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco is an easy-to-read, non-technical history of public h...

Regis Tremblay's " The Ghosts of Jeju " is an 81 minute documentary film describing the resistance of the people of Jeju Islan...

Ian Johnson reviewed Friends of God: Sufi Shrines in Western China by Lisa Ross  in The New York Review of Books . Some photos are on exhi...