This impressively illustrated companion volume to a forthcoming TV series on the destruction of the Aztec and Inca civilizations and related explorations is necessarily one of high drama and telling contrasts. It is also broad-based and... Read More

Fernande Olivier, known mostly for being Picasso’s first major lover from 1905 until 1912, was a central figure in the Parisian art world of the early twentieth century. This version of her journal is everything an illustrated book can... Read More

Inspired by a family game that started after a conversation in the lobby of the author’s apartment building, Real Soon, Raccoon is a simple and amusing book of good-bye lines. In the style of “See you later, alligator; after while,... Read More

America’s gay community extends far beyond the gay meccas of LA’s West Hollywood, New York’s West Village, and San Francisco’s Castro District to all sections of the U.S. Attention in the gay media and literature is focused on... Read More

In an age when people have become “moral sneaks,” collectively avoiding rather than embracing the truth, Donaldson and Wamberg ask with Mark Twain, “Where are the ‘merely honest’ people?” and how do we become honest? With a... 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 view, television was to be either praised or blamed for... Read More

“Those magical first days, the air was already hot even though it was early spring. It was dry and very still, except in the afternoon, when the cicadas would start clicking their high-pitched castanets.” Allen, a filmmaker and... Read More

Marion Jones is one of those world-famous Americans that Americans have yet to discover. The world’s fastest woman, she is accorded celebrity treatment in Europe, where she has been mobbed by autograph-seeking fans at international... Read More