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Facsimile (1992) of the Codex Mendoza. Original document at the Bodleian Library, Oxford University.

Facsimile (1992) of the Codex Mendoza. Original document at the Bodleian Library, Oxford University.

Facsimile (1992) of the Codex Mendoza. Original document at the Bodleian Library, Oxford University.

Mo Yan, was born in 1955 in Gaomi Township in Shandong Province, a rural area that is the setting for much of his fiction. Mo Yan ("don't speak") is a pseudonym for Guan Moye on the advice of his parents as a school-age boy during the Mao era. The…

Letter from Elisabeth Crittenden to her mother, Amarilla Earle in Connecticut.