“One of the more dramatic shifts in modern childhood … is the loss of freedom,” laments Cam Collyer in the foreword to this wondrous, book. Collyer tells of a survey in the UK that documented the area roamed by each generation... Read More

Finalist for the Iowa Short Fiction Prize, Stacy Tintocalis’s debut collection exposes the remnants of apple pie America. The book renders an unsettled contemporary world with characters who try to reconcile their past. The scenes take... Read More

Hailed as the dean of African American writers in the 1980s, John Oliver Killens (1916-1987) wrote fiction (novels, short stories, screenplays), nonfiction, and taught at the university level. He moved in the same circles in the 1950s... Read More

“History and mythology are full of female figures who made a crucial impact on cultural or political life,” the authors write. In Dangerous Women, Adler, a journalist and feminist historian, and Lécosse, who holds a doctorate in art... Read More

Sensuous Style:The outrageous Tamara de Lempicka dazzled with her beauty, extravagant wardrobe, fondness for jewels, and—most of all—her unmistakable art. Lempicka: The Artist, The Woman, The Legend, edited by Suzanne Tise-Isoré,... Read More

If modern diplomacy is “the peaceful means by which governments conduct their relations,” then the author, who offers this definition, was a player in many important Cold War and post-Cold War events that defined America’s global... Read More

The 1970s was not really the era of happy disco dancers portrayed in the media. It was a decade in which people were buffeted by unprecedented gasoline and energy shortages, a “stagflated” economy of high prices, and lost jobs. None... Read More

For anyone wondering whatever happened to all the small neighborhood Rexall drug stores that were common in the 1920s through 1960s, this book answers that question and more about the Rexall era. The author is a professor emeritus in the... Read More