Defining marriage and adultery is tricky, and it was even trickier in the 1800s. In the heady but colorful "Unfaithful", Carol Faulkner gives the history of American marriage reformers. These rebels and thinkers, along with some... Read More

Brush, charcoal, chisel, file, lathe, and potter’s wheel, yes, but what is it about artists’ tools like the chainsaw and welding torch that fail to impress so many art lovers and critics—as if real art can’t possibly come from... Read More

Modern culture has some ’splaining to do. Climbing out of the Renaissance/Elizabethan age through to the late eighteenth century, an increasingly enlightened society emerged into the industrial wonders of the nineteenth century and... Read More

Felver’s portraits, and excerpts from Native American writers, emphasize the interconnectedness of Native communities. Three generations. Ninety-six authors. Thousands of years of ancestral wisdom, imagery, and lore. That’s what’s... Read More

Authored by the top curators at the Palace of Versailles and the Louvre, and lavishly illustrated as only the J. Paul Getty Trust can do, "Marie-Antoinette" takes us on location to experience the queen’s rarefied world: her living... Read More

A focus on the “psychological work” of prison education makes the "Prison Education Guide" an important treatise on self-transformation. In an era of cynical and corrosive politics in which serious societal problems seem forever... Read More

How sixteenth- and seventeenth-century martyrdom translated into key doctrinal lessons for certain contemporary Christians is what religious scholar David L. Weaver-Zercher tries to understand in his expansive and thought-provoking new... Read More

Canada’s great size, rugged physical landscape, and understated personality of its smallish population all serve to keep the outrageous beauty of the place a relative secret—compared to its boastful southern neighbor. Crack the... Read More