The first I ever heard of Adam Lee, I was on my couch, in my underwear, watching every video I could find on YouTube like I do every time I find a new band or musician I fall in love with. I’d been told something like, “Check out this guy Adam Lee, he’s got a new...
When Bison Books first republished Black Elk Speaks in the fall of 1961, on the cusp of the counterculture movement, “the timing of the new edition could not have been better,” writes Timothy G. Anderson, author of Lonesome Dreamer: The Life of John G. Neihardt....
That sweaty night the Conservatory was full of young punk rockers, as it usually was, whose intentions were to get too drunk to care about the sound quality or even the performances. The wretched but beloved dump of a venue in Oklahoma City always smelled like old...
In Bad Faith, Theodore Wheeler’s debut collection of short stories, it is certainty that causes trouble. Ideas become boundaries, lines any reasonable person might draw for him or herself: beliefs in who they are or were, that what they’re doing is the best thing for...
Most journalists and political scientists lose sleep trying to define Midwestern ideology. Not Julianne Couch. In her book The Small-Town Midwest, the author presents the 46.2 million people living between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River as anything but...
Charles Mann’s latest book The Wizard and the Prophet explores two scientists’ lives in order to uncover the roots of the debate over how to address our biggest environmental challenges. In this double-biography, Mann finds humor, adventure and a warning about how to...
