Blues People\"A must for all who would more knowledgeably appreciate and better comprehend America's most popular music.\" Langston Hughes \"The path the slave took to 'citizenship' is what I want to look at. And I make my analogy through the slave citizen's musicthrough the music that is most closely associated with him: blues and a later, but parallel development, jazz [If] the Negro represents, or is symbolic of, something in and about the nature of American

What makes Doris Lessing one of the most vital thinkers of our time

is the 7th book in the beloved City Watch series and the 34th Discworld book

a medieval sword

leaving Alice with more questions than answers

A Parade of Elephants

but how well does she really know either of them

Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell have twisted together the familiar and the new as well as the beautiful and the wicked to tell a brilliant version of Snow White's (sort of) and Sleeping Beauty's (almost) stories

revealing the tensions and challenges CEO Tim Cook and his team face as they try to sustain Jobs’s vision and keep the company moving forward

No longer does she eat

A Perfect Halloween Read: With a tense

Sean Brock

The Science of Superstition uses hard science to explain pervasive irrational beliefs and behaviors: from the superstitious rituals of sports stars