The Misread City

A SHORT, insightful new book about the making of the modern world – told in microcosm – has just come from the pen of a noted indie rocker. ...

THE history of an art form is more than just the biography of its exemplars. But you wouldn’t know it by reading most histories of jazz. (I’...

LAST night the first half of Ken Burns' latest docs, The Dust Bowl , went up; it concludes this evening. By now, we have a pretty good...

ABOUT a week ago, I spent some time with Oliver Stone, and his co-writer, the historian Peter Kuznick, talking about their new "Untold ...

IT'S not a pretty picture: The Civil War saw as many people killed as all American wars put together. In some places, the proportion of...

THE hype around James Cameron's film, which came out while I was working as a film editor, was so deafening that a lot of us closed our ...

OKAY, get ready for a deluge of coverage of the Civil War, whose 150th anniversary begins in the new year. One of the first shots fired will...

I DON'T think there's a book i've given as a gift more often than "a history of the world in 6 glasses," a brisk and d...