Since the women’s movement of the 1960s, women have become increasingly successful in the workplace, reaching to new levels of influence and power in all areas of industry, law, medicine, and government. Yet, these achievements have... Read More

“One of the more dramatic shifts in modern childhood … is the loss of freedom,” laments Cam Collyer in the foreword to this wondrous, book. Collyer tells of a survey in the UK that documented the area roamed by each generation... Read More

Economically, the Middle East has lagged behind the West for centuries, and, as author Timur Kuran contends, that may be less attributable to the ravages of colonialism or scarcity of natural resources than to cultural conditions grown... Read More

Offering a new perspective on America’s food culture, Dave DeWitt’s "The Founding Foodies" explores the food “scene” of the early United States, mixing recipes and images with a studied history of colonial Americans’ farming... Read More

Edward Hopper started his well-known painting Nighthawks with a sketch. Seated at a restaurant counter are a man and woman, looking at each other, about to speak. When he transferred them to canvas, Hopper made a change—in the painting... Read More

Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, a survey of portrait art by and about lesbian and gay artists, ably addresses questions of disclosure and revelation in the work of twentieth-century artists. The book was... Read More

Self-assessments as frank and all-encompassing as “…she knows herself to be a woman afraid of engagement, of exposure, of experience, of change, of strangers, of obsolescence and loneliness” are seldom expressed during everyday... Read More

By the fourth millennium, the capital of the United Planetary States is the pinnacle of civilization. Andropolis is a sparkling city at the foot of the Himalayas. Even the poorest citizens have clean water and cheap, pre-fabricated... Read More