Heartbreakingly honest, authentically mature, Evans’s memoir is a testament to survival through loss and grief. Stanford fellow and poet John W. Evans delivers a memoir of... Read More

Wishart ensures that a period of Great Plains settlement, struggle, and abandonment will not be forgotten. In "The Last Days of the Rainbelt", geography professor David J.... Read More

This informative account delves into the personalities who brought the fitness trend to America. In "Making the American Body", Jonathan Black masterfully explores the many... Read More

There’s enough history of psychoanalysis here for the layman to wrap his head around. In Shrink: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in America, Lawrence R. Samuel... Read More

Nineteenth century narrative takes us back to Yellowstone’s days of discovery with poetic language evoking the high country. Jules Leclercq explored Yellowstone by horseback... Read More

Personal and human stories on the Vietnam War are matched by insightful exploration of political and military strategy. “Marines don’t allow women with legs down there,” a... Read More

This book of books contains all you need to know about baseball, including controversies, category by category. Ron Kaplan has created the ultimate baseball literature... Read More

A beguiling adventure that centers on sisterhood, endurance, and the struggle to be truly present. At twenty-two and fresh out of college, Suzanne Roberts decided that... Read More

Too often, when contemporary poets employ humor, they do so at the expense of their art. The potential for sublimity and poetic revelation in language seems to be diminished by... Read More

Like A League of Their Own, which brought light to the underreported and long-forgotten role of women in professional baseball, the 2002 feature film mentioned in Timothy... Read More

From the murky circumstances of her birth in Geneva in 1877 to her dramatic death in a flash flood in Ain Sefra, Algeria, Isabelle Eberhardt lived an unconventional life. At... Read More

The literal translation of the Japanese word banzai is “ten thousand years.” But the Japanese use it like the French use vive or the English “long live.” To think that... Read More