In the January 9 issue of the Times Literary Supplement reviewer Richard A. Fortey takes note of Pascal Richet’s new book, A Natural History of
Bradford Edwards, the artist whose astonishing collection of Vietnam-era Zippo lighters is featured in Vietnam Zippos: American Soldiers’ Engravings and Stories (1965-1973), was interviewed yesterday
Sunday’s Toronto Star ran an interesting article on sociologist David Grazian’s revealing portrait of Philadelphia’s thriving club scene in On the Make: The Hustle of
In a news release from Vanderbilt University’s news office, John G. Geer, author of In Defense of Negativity: Attack Ads in Presidential Campaigns observes that
Nature magazine is currently running a review of two recent historical accounts of popular science in the Victorian period, Bernard Lightman’s Victorian Popularizers of Science:
Sarah Sewall, director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and author of the introduction to The U.S.
The Chronicle of Higher Education is currently running a great article on Stephen E. Braude and his new book, The Gold Leaf Lady and Other
This year in Forbes magazine’s annual ranking of the best cities in the U.S. for singles, Philadelphia cracked the top ten for the first time,
Bloomberg.com is running an interesting review of a selection of the many recently published books on the war in Iraq. In the review, Charles Taylor
Although most of the papers have already published their year-end favorites lists, there are a few that are still showing up here and there giving