biography

Historic postcard image from the 1930s–1940s showing the Flagler Memorial Bridge illuminated at night, spanning the water between West Palm Beach and Palm Beach, Florida.
Photo: courtesy of the Tichnor Brothers Collection, Florida Postcards Series
  • thINKpieces

Dancing Across the Bridge from Epstein: A Beautiful Place of Horrors

Lauren Berlin

A reckoning with girlhood, dance, memory, and power in Palm Beach County

Jennifer Jones, a middle-aged African American woman, smiles radiantly into the camera. Her arms are crossed, and she wears a white V-neck top.
Photo courtesy of Jennifer Jones
  • Reviews

Blend In, Stand Out: The First African American Rockette Shares her Story

Megan Mizanty

“Becoming Spectacular” is an earnest memoir of illusion and perfection

A woman in a black leather coat, jeans and a black bowler hat squats down. Her long hair is blown across her face obscuring it and her hand moves up to brush it away. The name Clare Croft appears in black letters in the top left corner. In large white letters, the bottom of the photo reads: Jill Johnston.
Photo by Phyllis Birkby
  • Book Reviews

Interrupting the Paper Daughter

Emilee Lord

Reading writing on a writer dancing