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 avidly perused (and still peruses) the magazine itself from... Read More

“When I dance, I am filled with reverence for Mother Earth. I walk slowly, with great respect. My moccasins touch the ground so tenderly, touch-step, touch-step . I carry the fan of sacred eagle,” Grandmother White Hair tells... Read More

Tchaikovsky Through Others’ Eyes is just that: a compilation of memoirs, diary entries and interviews by Tchaikovsky’s contemporaries ranging from close friends and family members to colleagues and total strangers. The accounts are... Read More

In an era which renders obsolete the latest and greatest media technology almost as soon as it is unpacked from the box, Levinson seeks to understand the role of media in human affairs by re-examining the ideas of a man who died in 1980,... Read More

He was descended from the blackamoor of Peter the Great, loved the bar and bordello, fought duels and debts, had “a proper monkey’s face” and was five feet tall. Yet this same imp married a girl of renowned beauty and wrote... Read More

Did you know you came with an Owner’s Manual? Question is, are you willing to use it? In this thoughtful discussion of healthy living for body and soul, author and nutritionist David Meinz introduces the reader to what God has to say... Read More

The wonderful thing about Deborah Pease’s poems is that readers always know where they are. She leads to her landscapes with a sure hand—her poems open with the physical, with a true sense of place. A “boy sits on a rock,”... Read More

Gardening is blooming in the United States. More people list gardening as their favorite leisure activity over any other outdoor recreation. To some, gardening is the growing of vegetables. To others, it is the maintaining of an... Read More