In 2007 and 2008 Robert Plant toured with bluegrass darling Alison Krauss, supporting the Grammy-winning album of duets, Raising Sand. But he used to run with another band who did pretty well for themselves. John Bream, music guru for... Read More

The subjects of the stories of "Men Without Bliss" postpone satisfaction for a better year. Half of them are gay and half are straight, but there are almost no committed relationships of equals. Most work jobs which lack meaning;... Read More

Told from the difficult and rarely employed second-person point of view, Vizenor’s story is one of altar boy abuse on a Native American reservation at the hands of the Catholic clergy. The narrator, a retired journalist and former... Read More

The trouble with happily ever after is that it doesn’t leave much room for a sequel. Jane Austen’s novels give readers the belief that after the months of complications and misunderstandings after the declarations and weddings her... Read More

Politicians boast about spreading democracy. Armed forces clash. Civilians suffer and die. Pundits debate. Solutions are illusive. Another grand plan collapses into rubble. In the season of political change, many books have appeared with... Read More

The world of early childhood education has come a long way from the early days of preschool or prekindergarten, which initially operated almost like daycare (if daycare was defined as being a place where kids could play all day long with... Read More

A culinary tour of the west coast wouldn’t be complete without visiting Chez Panisse in Berkeley. Therein we discover A Platter of Figs and Other Recipes: A Year of Menus For a Table of Friends (Artisan, 978-1-57965-346-0), the newly... Read More

In "Hope and Help for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia" (Cumberland House, 978-1-58182-670-8), a leading specialist explains these mysterious conditions. Pain, fatigue, sleep dysfunction, brain function disturbances, and immune... Read More