Amiri Baraka, author of the American Book Award-winning Digging and over 40 other books of essays, poems, drama, and criticism, spoke with albuquerqueARTS magazine about conspiracy theories, the alchemy of poetry and …
Read More >In this UC Press podcast, Joe Mathews and Mark Paul reveal that in the slapdash political climate of the Gold Rush, California modeled its constitution after Iowa’s. The reason? It was short. …
Read More >Out of the tens of millions of pilgrims who have sought healing at Lourdes since the 19th century, there have been 66 official miracles, says Robert Scott in this UC Press podcast. …
Read More >In his book The Last Gasp: The Rise and Fall of the American Gas Chamber, Scott Christianson chronicles the dark history of the gas chamber in America. In this UC Press podcast, …
Read More >W. Joseph Campbell recently appeared on C-SPAN to discuss his book, Getting it Wrong, in which he reveals how ten misreported news stories took hold and became media-driven myths — widely believed, …
Read More >Jazz called to Nat Hentoff when he was 11 years old, and he heard Artie Shaw’s “Nightmare” wafting from a Boston storefront. At that moment, he writes in At the Jazz Band …
Read More >Many people are interested in venturing beyond the classic, familiar wines at dinner, but pairing new flavors with food can be a challenge. In this week’s episode of The Splendid Table, Evan …
Read More >Since 1992, Youth Radio has been an outlet for young people to find their own voices and tell their own stories through media. In Drop that Knowledge: Youth Radio Stories, Elisabeth Soep …
Read More >Medical anthropologist Philippe Bourgois and photographer and graduate student Jeff Schonberg spent 12 years among homeless heroin users on the streets of San Francisco, embedded in a world that is usually invisible …
Read More >While teaching English as a second language in Boston, Lynne Christy Anderson found that for her students, immigrants from many different backgrounds, food was common ground. “It’s this way to remain connected …
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