Vicki Hearne, best known and celebrated today as a writer of strikingly original poetry and prose, was a skillful dog and horse trainer, and sometimes
Poetry Daily—a website dedicated to the dissemination of contemporary poetry through news, reviews, and excerpts—has published the introduction as well as several excellent poems from
Daniel Lazare has written a fascinating review of several books on America’s growing prison crisis for Monday’s edition of the Nation. According to Lazare, the
Ten suspects have been arrested for the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya last October. The ten include “five police and Federal Security Service officers and
The Chicago Tribune published an article in Sunday’s edition praising the return of a Chicago classic, Bessie Louise Pierce’s A History of Chicago. Though long
Here is the Jon Stewart interview of Lt. Col. John Nagl on the Daily Show on Thursday night, as provided by Comedy Central: (Tip of
Updated on August 24: The Daily Show interview of Lt. Col. Nagl is viewable on YouTube. It may not be there for long. Making our
Art Book magazine, a monthly publication from the Association of Art Historians, is carrying an interesting review of Annabel Jane Wharton’s Selling Jerusalem: Relics, Replicas,
Kevin Rozario’s new book, The Culture of Calamity: Disaster and the Making of Modern America, recently received some positive press from the Chicago Tribune’s cultural
Last week’s edition of Nature carried an interesting review of Joseph E. Harmon and Alan G. Gross’s The Scientific Literature: A Guided Tour. As Nature’s