EDITORIAL REVIEW: Science and technology have made our lives easier, cured diseases, with achievements that an earlier age would have considered impossible. But once in a while, th...
FromChris Jaynes, professor of African American studies, has been denied tenure for his refusal to sit on the Diversity Committee at his university and for his intense interest in ...
FromBorn and raised in Detroit, Clemens has witnessed firsthand the decline and death of manufacturing in that city. So when he pondered writing about the decline of the American w...
Review“I read it in two sittings and just loved it.” (André Aciman, author of EIGHT WHITE NIGHTS ) “A rare and wonderfully written book of literary detection, that is heartbreaking...
Bobby Griffith was an all-American boy ...and he was gay. Faced with an irresolvable conflict-for both his family and his religion taught him that being gay was " wrong" -Bobby cho...
From Publishers WeeklyThe home of Chuck Palahniuk, Powell's City of Books—and the place with more strip clubs per capita than any other city in America—gets its due in this splendi...
SUMMARY: When Bill O'Reilly interviewed then-Senator Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential elections, the two had a lively debate about the nation's future. Since that time, Am...
"Joshua Lyon preferred opiates, America's fastest growing addiction, and in this enlightening and harrowing pill by pill tour, he maps the secret trades that are taking place in ev...
Native American guide Jane Whitefield takes on two clients--Timmy, the young heir to a fortune, whose adoptive family is murdered, and Mary Perkins, accused of stealing millions fr...