Drawing is a solitary activity. Coupled with being alone and 6,000 miles from home, one could expect Florent Chavouet’s first book, the graphic novel Tokyo on Foot: Travels in the City’s Most Colorful Neighborhoods, to be a cold and... Read More

A paleoanthropologist by training, Hank Wesselman captures for a new generation the stories and wisdom nurtured over eight years of friendship with the late Hale Kealohalani Makua, one of Hawaii’s greatest ancestral leaders and... Read More

The end David Marquand speaks of here is not a doomsday scenario in which the rising tide that is China and India washes away Europe and America. Rather, it is about the end of Western smugness and dominance—of the notion that the West... Read More

How is the heart won? Laughter certainly loosens the bars; cleverness occupies the mind, leaves the creature unprotected. After that the heart is easily cleaved in two. Troy Jollimore sneaks up on you. You’ll think the clap upside the... Read More

"Wicked Bugs" is a good example of what a natural science book should do: that is, integrate many different disciplines—history, biology, chemistry, medicine, and art—into an accessible, well-written package. In this case, a small... Read More

The generations that came of age in the 1960s and 1970s had a wide variety of publications, both fan-based and professional, in which to follow the activities of their favorite musicians. Rolling Stone, Crawdaddy, Creem, and Transoceanic... Read More

There is general agreement that adverse childhood experiences leave permanent scars, but with a person as gifted as Danielle Cadena Deulen, the result is transformative for writer and reader alike. In The Riots, her collection of... Read More

To be human means striving to come to terms with impermanence, change, and loss. Rationally, one knows that nothing lasts forever, including youth or a perfect moment. But when the hard, cold, unavoidable reality of dissonance destroys... Read More