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District Restoration

Working against sometimes clunky prose, but with an eye on posterity, Washington D.C.'s most (in)famous mayor tells his story of power, the temptations of power, and his legacy forgotten amidst scandal.

Drawing From the Welles

The majesty, intelligence, pettiness and prowess of the film world's famous boy genius and might-have-been is revealed—appetite and all—in the tape recorded pages of Henry Jaglom's My Lunches With Orson.

Django Done Right

Despite moments of tone-deafness, the graphic novel treatment of Django animates the ethical puzzle of Tarantino's film with static vigor, and color to spare.

Tales From TV Queendom

"Abnormally Normal" is the leading label of Melissa Joan Hart's new autobiography, but it's mostly normally abnormal in ways we've come to expect from Hollywood starlets.

Science Spoken Here?

Rashied Amini argues that, while the public's knowledge of science is woefully inadequate, scientists must learn to bridge divides of religion and a media world prone to sensationalism if the situation is to improve.

Raised in Vigilance

Watch Everything explores the career and times of U.S. District Judge Charles A. Shaw as one of three brothers growing up in racially-charged St. Louis, when personal tenacity and collective caution where a way of life.

Taking Liberty

You may think you know the story behind Auguste Bartholdi's creation of the Statue of Liberty, but you don't know the whole story until you read Elizabeth Mitchell's Liberty's Torch.

Days of Wrath

The Joads and their fellow Oakies may be today's Orange County conservatives, but the labor struggles and political tensions made real in the pages of Steinbeck's most famous book resonate 75 years later, and counting.

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