Anthologies of music criticism seldom sing. The subject matter is too arcane or the writing too elliptical, saturated, or otherwise uneven, but "Listen Again" largely avoids these weaknesses by keeping academic and fan club excesses to a... Read More

“I would like to get to know you better,” read the carefully typed note Miller surreptitiously—or so he thought—slipped to a young, white dime store cashier. Certainly, he knew that interracial dating was forbidden. In this... Read More

“I do not control or bend the national destiny; it controls and bends me,” Benito Mussolini told Edward Price Bell in an interview in 1924. Bell was the Chicago Daily News’ first foreign correspondent and the paper sent him to... Read More

Tecate, a Mexican border town near San Diego, really exists. In the hands of Reveles, however, it’s also a state of mind. "Guacamole Dip", his second book focusing on life in Tecate, is a collection of seven short stories about the... Read More

The feminist call for good female role models has been wildly successful. Hermione Granger’s wit and grit shine brightly among wizards, while Candy Cohen sparkles in the realm of mere heroines with mortal skills. Candy is the only... Read More

Mental health has been summarized as the ability to both love and to work. Books about love and psychology are legion; here is one that fills a large gap on the other front. Miller, a psychologist and management consultant, has written... Read More

“Exciting her spectators with her physical beauty and seductive playfulness as well as her great control and acumen, Baccelli danced with fleet, delicate steps in clearly etched patterns through space, her face always expressive and... Read More

“I have been an eclectic jockey; a radio soap opera gangster; a sports and political commentator; a jazz critic; a pioneer in TV Chicago style; an oral historian and a gadfly,” Terkel writes. At age ninety-five, Studs Terkel can... Read More