The Papercuts blog takes a look at Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders , by Eric Etheridge: In an introd...

So have you seen Iron Man yet? Really good, right? The idea of the super-hero comes from lots of different places. Mythology is a big on...

I have mixed feelings about Earth Matters: An Encyclopedia of Ecology . Consultant editor David de Rothschild compiled a lot of good inform...

Over at Papercuts there was a recent discussion of the most overrated and underrated baseball players. The post was sparked by a recent Spo...

I want to be a futurist . Or maybe a lunar home designer .

I'm a particular fan of American history in that I'm particular about the parts I like. It isn't an ideological divide as much a...

The new issue of Bookslut is up with my new YA column and it includes several books from "hidden worlds" including two werewolf t...

Love sports? Love biography? Love poetry? If any one of these is true, then have I got the book for you. When I was a kid, boxing was in one...

Wellll, I can't say I agree with all of these - in fact some are really lame. What should be on the list and isn't? How about Gotha...

Posted by Alex I'm supposed to review What Happened by Peter Johnson, and I will,in a sense. There are two ways of looking at this boo...