During the Trump administration, more people sought sanctuary in churches in Philadelphia than any other city in the United States. The city was also on the front lines of progressive policy making, defending its sanctuary policies in federal court. In this collection of essays and interviews, a diverse set of authors examine the promise and limits of sanctuary. Contributors include Carmela Apolonio Hernández, who spent over three years living in sanctuary to resist deportation, community ...

Set between the Staffordshire Potteries and Paris, The Old Wives' Tale traces the bifurcating lives of Constance and Sophia Baines from youthful shop assistants to old age, through marriage, commerce, flight, and loss. Bennett's spacious realism - precise in material detail, steady in pace, and quietly psychological - turns the ordinary into event. Moving from Bursley's drapery to the 1870-71 Siege of Paris, the novel makes time its protagonist. Within the Edwardian realist tradition and i...

Arnold Bennett's The Grand Babylon Hotel is a sparkling fin‑de‑siècle entertainment that doubles as a sly anatomy of modern luxury. When American millionaire Theodore Racksole, affronted by a refusal to serve his daughter Nella a simple steak, impulsively purchases London's most opulent hotel, he inherits a labyrinth of secret suites, shadowed cellars, and imperial intrigues. The disappearance of Prince Eugen of Posen draws Racksole and Nella into a transnational conspiracy involving the i...