The 1920s and 30s are usually regarded as Hollywood’s “golden years,” when the film industry began first to capture America’s, and then the world’s, imagination. More than a booming town that had humble beginnings, Hollywood... Read More

Grape leaves are a staple of the Arab diet, so too are words. The connection is rightfully made in this collection of Arab-American poetry that is powerful through both the beauty of its art and its thoroughness. It includes the works of... Read More

Motown Records is an American success story and an African American triumph. To Smith, however, the fabled enterprise symbolizes a great deal more. The assistant professor of history at George Mason University argues that Motown not only... 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 Saturn inhabits the fringe, science fiction edge of American... Read More

What is there about the Tarot, a deck of seventy-eight cards bearing symbolic pictures, that could evoke enough fear that during certain eras of history one could have been jailed, exiled or even killed were it found in one’s... Read More

Vivid imagery and original ideas make The Post-Corporate World an interesting and thought-provoking perspective of Korten’s view of global society. Korten, a former Harvard Business School professor, compares the stock market to “a... Read More

For those scholars, poets, students of feminist literature and other followers of Hilda Doolittle’s poetry comes the definitive publication of her autobiographical work—finally available in its uncut, minimally revised form. The Gift... Read More

Nola was so exciting and confirming for me as a nonfiction writer that I wanted to set this review in the context of some of the current issues evolving around creative nonfiction. It is an important text because it unites story and... Read More