Those who failed to embrace the religious right in the 1980s may be troubled by this book’s title. Not that long ago, “family values” was shorthand for a certain conservative political and moral perspective: if you didn’t have a... Read More

Several notable works of late-millennium journalism profile ordinary people. Studs Terkel’s Working, a series of interviews with members of the American workforce, is a good example of this. More recently, Alan Wolfe, in One Nation,... Read More

On a miserable December day in southern California, designer and art director Terry Ruscin drove to the church at Mission San Luis, Rey de Francia to hear a performance of Handel’s Messiah. The music was familiar enough, but for Ruscin... Read More

To those whose idea of grilling is a backyard barbecue—good plain protein and lots of it—Sloan’s compendium of marinades, rubs, sauces and intricate multipart recipes for foods like Portuguese-Style Grilled Chicken with Piri-Piri... Read More

As editor and contributor Murray states, “the selections in The Seacoast Reader range over three continents, four oceans and a hundred and fifty years…all speak directly to the enduring beauty, power and mystery of the world’s sea... Read More

Modifying our eating habits often means first recognizing, and then modifying, a wide gamut of social behaviors: the vessels we eat from, the company we keep, the way we celebrate. Eat Yourself Slim takes this principle to a new level.... Read More

Different Voices, Walter Febrick’s novella, is a California dream—the kind of dream that you wake up from, urgent to tell someone what happened, say “…and then…,” and fall back asleep till you’ve dreamed the next thread of... Read More

The cover page of this elegantly presented volume describes Michael Anania’s poetic territory as the Midwestern plains and the Chicago cityscape. The territory is, however, equally if not more about jazzmen and German expressionists,... Read More