Everyday life in Afghanistan trains the lens of a photojournalist’s camera, while embedded with American troops: from the view out of a combat helicopter above the mountains to a center for women’s rights and a campaign rally in... Read More

Everyday life in Afghanistan trains the lens of a photojournalist’s camera, while embedded with American troops: from the view out of a combat helicopter above the mountains to a center for women’s rights and a campaign rally in... Read More

In her book Throwaway Players: The Concussion Crisis, From Pee Wee Football to the NFL, former Tampa Bay Buccaneers President Gay Culverhouse reveals the dark side of football in America. Today’s fans see the six-figure contracts, the... Read More

It would be a mistake to dismiss "All My Dogs" by Bill Henderson as just another entry into the already inflated category of canine books, because this little memoir is masterful. The author reminisces about the numerous dogs he has... Read More

Discovered by Romulus in 753 B.C., a village of shepherds that would eventually become the Eternal City was initially understood as an abstract concept and a symbolic image rather than a real place, according to this fine book. By 70... Read More

Trying to restore standards to the glut of memoirs devouring the book market, Neil Genzlinger, copy editor and frequent contributor to the New York Times recently wrote: “[I]t’s not a regurgitation of ordinariness or ordeal, not a... Read More

According to the International Energy Association, conventional crude oil production peaked in 2006. And most economists agree that as oil supplies grow tight, spikes in the price will slow down economic growth. Despite having the same... Read More

Imagine a dystopian world in which virtually everyone was dying of cancer and treatments were no longer effective. Then imagine you had the key to saving the world, but at great danger to yourself. That is the premise behind the riveting... Read More