Baxter Black, the country’s best-known cowboy poet, whose witty, big-hearted verse about cowpokes, feed lots and wide-open vistas elevated the tradition of Western doggerel...
Drawing on archival visual material from the former Soviet Union and a mix of old and contemporary interviews, the tense documentary “Chernobyl: The Lost...
Meghan Stabile, who saw jazz and hip-hop as genres that could cross-pollinate and who, hoping to bring jazz to younger audiences, started a shoestring...
Sandra Mendoza picked a forest green panel to recall the S.U.V. her husband, Juan Espinoza, a car aficionado and restorer, proudly purchased before his...
James Rado, who jolted Broadway into the Age of Aquarius as a co-creator of “Hair,” the “American tribal love-rock musical” that transfigured musical theater...
AN IMMENSE WORLDHow Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around UsBy Ed YongIllustrated. 449 pages. Random House. $30. A dolphin that echolocates a human...
Kochanski tells this story effectively on the basis of deep research (although almost entirely in English-language sources). Her long book is always interesting and...