Carrie Tipton traces the complex origins of college fight songs
…experience aspects of that emotional imprint long before they ever attend university. The book also briefly riffs on the idea that the seasonal rhythm of college football — all the…
Angela Tucker wants us to understand the complexities of adoption
…to learn from the book that many U.S. adoptees still have no legal right to see their original, unredacted birth certificates. Are there policy changes around adoption you’d like to…
Alan Lightman considers the origins of spirituality in The Transcendent Brain
…love or desire, given a brain of sufficient complexity,” and that all our mystical visions are explainable in purely material terms. But persuading skeptical readers is not Lightman’s primary purpose…
Western Edge explores country-rock from the Byrds to the Blasters and beyond
…album-shaped. Just looking at the cover puts a song in your head. Maybe it’s something off the Byrds’ 1968 landmark album Sweetheart of the Rodeo, the so-called “Big Bang for…
Two California grad students get quite an education in the 1960s South
…there are any number of those already on the shelves. This is a study of life, real life, in a pivotal place and a crucial time, with two bright and…
David Dark is still questioning everything
…someone else. The essential questions (Who is my neighbor? What do we owe each other? How do I go about enjoying my own life?) are all ineluctably religious and political.…
