It's worth exploring and compares favorably to other university writing sites, such as Purdue's large construction. A comprehensive, well-laid out index of grammar errors, CUNY's grammar page links you to understandable, simple explanations of common and less common errors, provides exercises and accompanying answers to the exercises. Writing Nothing particularly stellar is at this site except a nicely laid out format and simple discussion, with step by step prompting of how to write a basic essay. It seems directed at high school students, with a vocabulary appropriate to that level. This is an academic article, giving general background, with references to Babel and other Russian writers of the period.
Site contains numerous audio files of stories by Jewish authors.
A comprehensive but digestible overview of Baldwin's life, work, and historical context. Written in 1995 by John Stevenson for Boston Book Review. This site offers classroom ideas, lessons, topics for discussion on Baldwin's writing. This is a simple site with brief biography. Chopin, Kate Chopin on Empirezine .