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Mainstream American poetry of the 1950s has long been dismissed as deliberately indifferent to its cultural circumstances. In this penetrating study, Edward Brunner breaks the placid surface of the hollow decade to reveal a poetry sharply responsive to issues of its time.  Cold War Poetry considers the fifties poem as part of a dual cultural project: as proof of the competency of the newly professionalized poet and as a user-friendly way of in...

Exploring Wong Kar-wai's groundbreaking use of sound and visual technique to create a new form of cinema

Brooks Blevins is the Noel Boyd Professor of Ozarks Studies at Missouri State University. He is the author or editor of eight books, including: Ghost of the Ozarks: Murder and Memory in the Upland South, Arkansas, Arkansaw: How Bear Hunters, Hillbillies, and Good Ol' Boys Defined a State, and Hill Folks: A History of Arkansas Ozarkers and their Image.

Sandra M. Bolzenius is a former instructor at The Ohio State University and served as a transportation specialist in the United States Army.

Neil V. Rosenberg is Professor Emeritus of Folklore at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He is the author of Bluegrass: A History and coauthor of Bluegrass Odyssey and The Music of Bill Monroe.

Dale Knickerbocker is Distinguished Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures at East Carolina University. He is the author of Juan Jos¿ill¿ The Obsessive-Compulsive Aesthetic .

Sandra Jean Graham is an associate professor of music at Babson College.

Avital Ronell is Chair of Comparative Literature at New York University and teaches at the European Graduate School. Her books include Crack Wars: Literature Addiction Mania, The Test Drive, and Stupidity.

Lindsay Palmer is an assistant professor of global media ethics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Larry Kanfer earned a degree in architecture from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is an award-winning photographic artist whose original artwork is available through his galleries in Champaign, Illinois, and online at www.kanfer.com. His original artwork is featured in public and private collections nationally. His previous books of photography include A Prairie State of Mind, Prairiescapes, On Firm Ground, On Second Glance:...

Alice Kessler-Harris is the R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History Emerita at Columbia University and a professor at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Her many books include In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America and A Woman's Wage: Historical Meanings and Social Consequences.

Walter Aaron Clark is Distinguished Professor of Musicology and the founder/director of the Center for Iberian and Latin American Music at the University of California, Riverside. His books include Isaac Albeniz: Portrait of a Romantic and Enrique Granados: Poet of the Piano. In 2016, King Felipe VI of Spain made him a Knight Commander of the Order of Isabel the Catholic.

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Ken Albala is a professor of history and food studies at the University of the Pacific. He is author of Three World Cuisines: Italian, Mexican, Chinese and coauthor of The Lost Art of Real Cooking: Rediscovering the Pleasures of Traditional Food, One Recipe at a Time . He blogs at kenalbala.blogspot.com.

From James Brown to the Stanley Brothers, the story of the glory years of a pioneering independent American record company

At present, human beings worldwide are using an estimated 115.3 million animals in experiments "a normalization of the unthinkable on an immense scale. In terms of harm, pain, suffering, and death, animal experiments constitute one of the major moral issues of our time. Given today's deeper understanding of animal sentience, we must afford animals a special moral consideration that precludes their use in experiments. The Ethical Case against A...

Becky Thompson is a professor of sociology at Simmons College. Her books include Survivors on the Yoga Mat: Stories for Those Healing from Trauma and Promise and A Way of Life: White Antiracist Activism .

Born in Sondrio, Italy, in 1891, Pier Luigi Nervi was a pioneer in the engineering and architecture of reinforced concrete. His buildings showed how the use of reinforced concrete expanded the possibilities of form and structure. His methods, meanwhile, ingrained his structures with patterns that came directly out of his economical, manual construction processes. The results were buildings that matched awe-inspiring spans with surprisingly hum...