To better understand humanity, as an exercise in confronting the truth, and to locate the pit of our stomach, we took a hard look at the issue of overpopulation and overdevelopment via the two hundred photographs in this book—we are... Read More

What brand of privileged namby-pambiness will we get out of the twenty-something-year-old Theodore Roosevelt’s diary, he of Harvard and Columbia and the just-another-night-at-the-ball trappings of great family wealth? Here’s a taste... Read More

Christopher Madsen’s sixteen-year odyssey began with the $5000 purchase of a fifty-nine-foot wooden yacht that barely floated and looked a complete wreck. But he knew the "Rowdy" was yachting royalty: built in 1916 for the New York... Read More

That we know far more about the lifestyles and spirituality of the ancient Greeks and Romans than we do native Americans living just two hundred years ago is all the more depressing when a project like this comes along to point out what... Read More

Luck, Hemingway said, is a fluid, elusive force that could come right up to us and still go unnoticed. But that definition doesn’t begin to explain the unusual things people do to bring luck, nor does it hint at the superstitions... Read More

Hunger drove humans to first eat fish, and creativity to develop the use of hook, line, rod, and reel, but genius certainly inspired the sporting pursuit of the most elusive species with beautifully hewn floating lures of pheasant... Read More

When a girl is raised on a farm, she gains superpowers. There is nothing she can’t do with a tractor, hoe, or kitchen stove—except, perhaps, be a lazybones and sleep in the sun. Wonderfarmer Jessica Robinson seemingly absorbed the... Read More

Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima—what a difference an accident or three makes. From the earliest days of nuclear power’s sixty-year history, industry insiders downplayed the risks, but a small number of committed activists... Read More