Motown Records is an American success story and an African American triumph. To Smith, however, the fabled enterprise symbolizes a great deal more. The assistant professor of... Read More

Most people know the classic schoolyard rhyme about how to differentiate the sexes—boys possess the odd combination of snips, snails and puppy dog tails, but girls are made of... Read More

In Sheridan’s conclusion to this very complimentary biography, he talks about how Gide’s work has never gone out of fashion in France—that most fashion-conscious of all... Read More

This is a study of how The New Yorker magazine influenced and was influenced by its readership in the postwar years. It should appeal to the same genteel intellectual crowd that... Read More