Popular music in America has been so much a man’s world that the author performs a real service here in drawing attention to the steady contributions and growing influence of women performers, songwriters, managers, and record company... Read More

Rarely has a student of country music imbedded himself as deeply and profitably in the subject as this author does. Fox first came to the little town of Lockhart, Texas—the site of this study—in February 1990. He says he was... Read More

A fourteen-year-old from inner-city Chicago becomes a millionaire. The murder of a child inspires her mother to renounce drugs and become an inspirational speaker. An old lady’s gift of one dollar reminds a college student not to take... Read More

“I don’t know why I thought of using Gustav Holst’s ‘Mars’ as an intro. I just thought it would make a great start. It’s dramatic. It draws you in.” So began the creation of Diamond Head’s single Am I Evil?, made famous... Read More

You wont find more exotic characters and setting, or a more complex (and powerful) political theme, than Eliot Pattison serves up in "The Lord of Death" (Soho Crime, 978-1-56947-579-9). Its set in Tibet, where Shan Tao Yun, a former... Read More

It was a typical Wednesday afternoon “which any person in any office across the nation can tell you rival Monday mornings for being the worst chunk of time all week long” when Detective Gus Haglund walked into Carol Franks life. In... Read More

During the summer of 2002, Colin Angus, a Canadian in his thirties, decided to make a statement about the overuse of fossil fuels and the urgency of climate change, and began planning the first ever human-powered circumnavigation of the... Read More

Rachel and Adam Newman, fourteen-year-old twins from New York, are shipped off to live with an unaffectionate grandmother in a peculiar English town on the moors whose insular residents share a complicated secret. Will Peterson’s... Read More