This celebration of vinyl speaks to the transience of pop culture and its intersection with everyday lives. For twelve years, music critic, curator, and collector John Corbett... Read More

Tate succeeds in luring the audience by narrating as much from the heart as from the head. Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader is an immersive, fluid, and genre-bending collection of... Read More

Chatelain has done an outstanding job of identifying childhood experiences for Chicago’s young black girls. The Great Migration (1910-70) saw six million African Americans... Read More

Moving portraits of human trafficking and hard labor amongst immigrants in the US absorb and inspire. In recent years, numerous books have appeared on the subject of human... Read More

These personal essays on and acute observations of Che Guevara’s legacy achieve insight into his enduring appeal to young revolutionaries. Forty-six years after he was killed... Read More

Author recounts the many lives and adoptions of Hello Kitty as a worldwide cultural phenomenon. "Pink Globalization" follows the rise of Hello Kitty in both its early domestic... Read More

Intimate, vulnerable memoir chronicles Cuban-American cultural anthropologist’s coming-of-age as she travels the world in search of “home.” “However much I long for the... Read More

There is a glut of books published on all aspects of film studies: critical analyses of directors’ oeuvres; in-depth explications of classic and contemporary films; film genre... Read More

In a well-researched and enlightening account, Fisher traces the rise of the first generation of women on Wall Street to reach senior level positions previously held solely by... Read More

Much like rock in earlier decades, punk, heavy metal, hip-hop, and other contemporary music genres channel public rage resulting from uncontrollable social and economic... Read More

For more than a decade Tiger Woods has been one of the most celebrated men in the history of sports. At a young age, this dynamo took the golf world by storm, accumulating the... Read More

Mention the name Julia Child in almost any crowd and you’ll get smiles, nods, and stories about favorite episodes of her cooking show, The French Chef. Child has become an... Read More