Lush Lit

Clockers author sues for justice on the streets of Gotham

By James Walling

Richard Price is one of the strongest literary voices working today, and the release of his eighth and most recent novel, Lush Life, has been heralded as a cultural event...

Global Gastromusicology

A cookbook for the culinarily adventurous, culturally curious and musically diverse

By Steven Walling

Even if your preferred palate never strays from American staples, The Ethnomusicologists’ Cookbook is a fascinating read, connecting multi-continental music and food in a way heretofore unheard of for a cookbook...

Lines From the Front

Eschewing violence and vitriol, Here, Bullet’s poetry puts a human face to both sides of an endless war 

By Kate Lebo

Here, Bullet is different from the bulk of current war poetry because it isn’t consumed by the question of “Why are we here?” It doesn’t dwell on the political subterfuge that started the war, or the indignation and despair we might feel because of it. Rather, it asks the next question, which is “how do we cope with being here?”