The annual event on the UA campus is a colossus, potentially tougher to navigate than the writings of Tolstoy or Faulkner. You need a plan of attack. Here's a tip: Follow your interests, and you won't go wrong. There's plenty to like for animal lovers, foodies, science geeks, sports fans and newshounds.
Two UA researchers, scheduled to give talks during the Tucson Festival of Books, speak about the importance of the contributions made by women in the STEM fields.
The work of UA anthropologist Jennifer Roth-Gordon looks at how traditional notions about the superiority of whiteness and the inferiority of blackness play out in Rio de Janeiro.
UA master's degree students Dustin Lee Shores and Eric Wilson have launched a joint examination into ways that depictions of the West helped form a mythology about the region.
