The story opens with a man in a red-checked coat delivering, door-to-door, dozens of homemade fruitcakes. He bakes them at home inside tin cans, “for two people, it was a soup can. For small families, a vegetable can. For large... Read More

Curtis White believes that it’s a mistake to blame the global environmental crisis on greedy corporations or self-interested polluters. In his provocative and intellectually acrobatic new book The Barbarian Heart, White—an essayist,... Read More

In 2007, when radio shock jock Don Imus referred to the nationally acclaimed Rutgers women’s basketball team as “nappy-headed hos,” public outrage led to his highly publicized firing by CBS and provoked a heated national discussion... Read More

The legendary animosity between England’s Henry II and his wife and queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, has been featured in fiction, nonfiction, and in the film The Lion in Winter. Elizabeth Chadwick reflects that tumultuous relationship... Read More

Once one has mastered the rules of an artistic discipline, it becomes possible for a gifted few to transcend them. In "The Adderall Diaries", author Stephen Elliott shatters the strictures of conventional writing to create a poignant... Read More

The names of the legendary head coaches of football yesteryear are indelibly etched into the minds of football fans and into American culture. Halas. Lombardi. Bryant. Rockne. The names evoke an image of a hard-nosed past where players... Read More

Many women are brought up to believe that they should have one special friend in their lives, a BFF—Best Friend Forever. Unfortunately, this belief often leads to heartbreak, since friends are rarely forever. As people grow and change,... Read More

In 1809, composer Franz Joseph Hayden’s head was stolen from his grave. This was not an isolated incident. The skulls of artist Francisco Goya, composers Ludwig Van Beethoven and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, philosophers Rene Descartes,... Read More