Against all the laws of nature, certain sports heroes pull off the extraordinary stunt of running faster, jumping higher, hitting a ball farther after they die. In a word, athletes—think George Gipp (the Gipper), Lou Gehrig, Dale... Read More

Beautiful photographs are paired with oral histories; what emerges is a nuanced vision of Yosemite, rich and complex. Yosemite National Park is iconic to American imagery, so it would seem like an impossible task to offer a new and... Read More

Vergara not only depicts Detroit’s past and present but also considers the city’s future. Photographer Camilo Jose Vergara has made his name capturing images of the decline of America’s cities. Perhaps no city has declined more... Read More

The novel thrives in the realm of anti-art, testing boundaries and throwing clever punches. “This example of anti-art deserves nothing short of scathing criticism,” asserts the first page of Jonathan Harnisch’s massive novel The... Read More

Intense and artfully self-centered, this novel wraps around itself in search of release, after which the pleasure is over all too soon. Jonathan Harnisch’s "Pastiche" is an exhaustive and frequently painful catalog of the struggles of... Read More

Christopher Madsen’s sixteen-year odyssey began with the $5000 purchase of a fifty-nine-foot wooden yacht that barely floated and looked a complete wreck. But he knew the "Rowdy" was yachting royalty: built in 1916 for the New York... Read More

Yoga has always attracted lots of yogis from lots of religions—some for quasispiritual reasons, others for the physical benefits, certain men drawn by hot rooms with leotard-clad women, and so on. This visual history represents the... Read More