People do not like to be alone. Although they may claim to desire privacy, in reality most need the comfort of having someone—or something—close by for company. That’s the... Read More

For those who think that the evils of TV are more perfidious for today’s children, Bodroghkozy’s Groove Tube will surely be an eye-opener. “Depending on one’s point of... Read More

Marshall McLuhan said it and Duggan confirms it: the medium is the message. Harkening back to the late nineteenth century, Duggan traces the development of the national press.... Read More

In the introduction to her collection of essays and interviews, activist Hollibaugh asks a series of brutally honest question, the kind of straightforward queries one would... Read More

For those seeking to understand the troubled history of India and Pakistan, and the current tensions that plague these neighboring nations, Butalia proffers a tremendous... Read More

“This is a book about neighbors: not about who our neighbors are but about who we imagine them to be.” In his introduction to Mutual Impressions, Stavans points out that our... Read More

It would be difficult to imagine three more different composers than Sun Ra, Duke Ellington and Anthony Braxton. Sun Ra with his Cosmic Arkestra and his claims of coming from... Read More

The academic is surely one of the least likely suspects to participate in the recent vogue of memoir writing. One would think that the long hours spent in libraries required to... Read More

Certain photographs, by virtue of composition, light or subject, have the ability to draw a viewer into another world, to make one yearn for intimate knowledge of the... Read More

In the rich autumn of Reynolds Price’s voluminous career, or on page 514 under the June, 1990 entry of his own 42 years of journal keeping now published as Learning a Trade: A... Read More