An assessment of baseball's ascension as a global business brand and its myth-making power Smart Ball follows Major League Baseball's history as a sport ...

"Fiction/facts are what the artist creates. Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat ...

Two Hundred Years of Pharmacy in Mississippi by Leslie Caine Campbell Early in the nineteenth century the Choctaw alikchi chito, or "big doctor," gathered ...

Redressing the Balance: American Women's Literary Humor from Colonial Times to the 1980s edited by Nancy Walker and Zita Dresner This book giving new ...

This book brings together almost all of the known interviews Elizabeth Bishop gave over a period of thirty years. Included also are a few selected pieces ...

Few Hollywood directors had a higher profile in the 1930s than Frank Capra (1897-1991). He served as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and ...

Fiction of the Home Place: Jewett, Cather, Glasgow, Porter, Welty, and Naylor by Helen Fiddyment Levy This panorama of a distinctly American literary ...