"Distance Cycling" is written for the cyclist who has decided he or she wishes to train with a specific goal in mind. As outlined in the introduction, these goals might range from successfully completing a long ride (100-200 kilometers)... Read More

Nick Mamatas can speak from experience about the horrors of the writing life. Like most writers, he knows what it’s like to live without a steady paycheck, have no health insurance, and be without savings to fall back on; and as an... Read More

Few musicians and artists have had as much impact on America’s popular culture as Bob Dylan. Hundreds of books have been written about him, with his lyrics picked apart and analyzed by professors and Dylanologists, but since 1986 this... Read More

Historians have long speculated about the extent to which the German people supported or colluded with the ideology of the Third Reich. While the devastating economic effects of the Versailles Treaty and a centuries-deep well of... Read More

The name unfailingly evokes heroic adventure, dazzling conquests, exotic realms, a tragic early death … but quite what happened after the conqueror’s demise in Babylon, in 323, at age 32, poses a major mystery. In a clear narrative,... Read More

They’re not called the “Mommy Docs” for nothing. The authors of this guide to pregnancy and birth have not only collectively delivered more than 15,000 babies, but they’re also mothers who have each encountered a complication... Read More

The Apostle Islands are a breathtaking archipelago of twenty-two islands in Lake Superior, off the northern tip of Wisconsin. Containing white sand beaches, rugged cliffs, and water-carved caves—as well as the last remnants of the... Read More

These are transcriptions of fifty interviews Moyers conducted for the third incarnation of Bill Moyers Journal, which ran on PBS from 2007 to 2010. Politically, he is an unapologetic New Deal/Great Society liberal (he was Lyndon... Read More