When it comes to children’s television programming, Nickelodeon is the 800-pound gorilla on the block. A division of Viacom International, its 24/7 broadcasts via satellite are considered not only the most successful producer of... Read More

Hollywood’s fast and loose versions of all things Russian, from its literature to its history, might be more amusing if it were not the sole source of information about the country for so many people. Russians in Hollywood looks at how... Read More

A little girl first heard this story as she and her tribe members sat around the campfire nearly 125 years ago on the Yankton Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (1876-1938) is the girl who eventually grew... Read More

Most readers will easily recall the nineteenth-century American poets they studied in college because they were so few and indeed so memorable: Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson largely make up the very short list. Published in the Modern... Read More

To autistic Josh, new people are like new shoes, “They both rub him the wrong way.” His sister, Jody, narrates when their Great Aunt Tilda comes to visit. Although frustrated by her brother’s interruptions during a game with Aunt... Read More

Anthologies of music criticism seldom sing. The subject matter is too arcane or the writing too elliptical, saturated, or otherwise uneven, but "Listen Again" largely avoids these weaknesses by keeping academic and fan club excesses to a... Read More