Peaches and Daddy: A Story of the Roaring 20’s, The Birth of Tabloid Media, & The Courtship that Captured the Heart and Imagination of the American Public.* Real estate multi-millionaire Edward West Browning married Nellie Adele... Read More

Every law student learns quickly that neither the United States nor any other country has legal authority over foreign powers or their citizens. The United Nations is an institution deprived of the two standard tools of behavior... Read More

Devout Nigerian Muslims use practitioners of spirit possession on the sly when faced with problems they cannot solve; in an ostensibly Catholic town in Mexico, the cult of the Virgin comforts women as their husbands divide their time... Read More

When it comes to telling tales out of school, Damian Madrid is in the perfect position to sense who might know something about the murder of his best friend and teammate Shandell Bird. The college basketball superstar known as Blackbird... Read More

Fear of failure wreaks havoc on writers in many ways, from writer’s block to completely abandoned manuscripts. Perhaps it is even powerful enough to cause a celebrated, talented novelist to perpetrate one of the biggest frauds in... Read More

“If you’re looking for some sharp-eyed observation and down-to-earth critique of the health care system, imperialism, the state of the environment, or corporate downsizing, the bus is the place to find it,” writes Kath Weston, an... Read More

Fame, of course, is fleeting, but immortality belongs to those bold enough to chase it. At least in sheer volume of images, Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868—1952) will never be surpassed as the greatest photographer of Native Americans in... Read More

Adult nightmares are often the echoes of childhood recollections, horrors left behind to grow and fester in the fertile earth of imagination. The visions of Richard Hill are no different; the memories of what he witnessed—his... Read More