Beginner’s Pluck
Its professional definition of design may be outdated, but “GO: A Kidd’s Guide” succeeds in demonstrating a visual sensibility, while supplying basic vocabulary for novices.
St. Louis By Design
How Raymond Edward Maritz harkened back to English country houses and French chateaux to create an architectural style unique to St. Louis, and one that would spread across North America.
Master of the Pot
Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan chart the wonderful, inventive life and career of George Ohr, the Mississippi man who made the world his pot.
Michael Jackson’s Lonesome Highway
Remember The Time gives us peeks at the King of Pop through the lens of staff who worked closest with him, and thought the most of him.
Remembering Murray Weidenbaum
How late Washington University economist Murray Weidenbaum waged a gentleman’s battle against the syndromes of small-mindedness.
Black History in March? No Good
Why March is the month of my Black History memories, the truth about the Sonny Liston-Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) championship fight, and The Common Reader comes into being.
Inventing The Common Reader
I was not interested in starting a journal, academic or otherwise. Then, given time, the invitation proved too seductive to resist.
