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Bruce Boxleitner

"James Arness made all the difference in his storied film and television career."

Rocky Mountain Bonanzas

Explore mining history from Cripple Creek to Grand Encampment.

My Top Ten Favorite Movie Moments

True West’s Firearms Editor applauds authenticity.

Cultural Traditions to Celebrate

Each year, UNESCO compiles traditions, knowledge, skills and art from communities across the globe, in a list of “Intangible Cultural Heritage.” The chosen items are not historical monuments or artifacts, but rather “living expressions inherited from our ancestors.” In a time of rapid globalization, the list serves to recognize and celebrate cultural diversity and highlights how traditional ways of life interact with the contemporary world. From the navigation skills of Micronesian wayfarers to a thousand-year pottery tradition carried by women in northern Peru, here’s a snapshot of this year’s list.

What Roots Means to Me

Alex Haley’s landmark book began in Reader’s Digest, where he worked as a senior editor. The repercussions are still being felt today.

Passion and Love for Community

Dr. Prakash Tyagi is the executive director of Gramin Vikas Vigyan Samiti (GRAVIS), an NGO dedicated to working in impoverished rural regions of India, including the Thar desert, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, and Bundelkhand. In part 2 of this interview with Kashish Kalwani, he speaks about how things have changed due to the pandemic and the importance of passion and love for community.

Our 21 Favorite Books of 2021

Luckily, 2021 provided a plethora of intriguing options to pique any interest from thrillers on this planet and in space to a Dustbowl family saga,

Joan Didion's Greatest Two-Word Sentence

The power of an ice-cold, unflinching gaze.

Sean Thor Conroe – The Protégé

Sean Thor Conroe lost his fiercest advocate right before he published his first novel. Now he’s facing the hype without him.

Mixed Media Vanishing Point

More than two centuries ago, a group of West Africans chose death over enslavement in the waters of coastal Georgia. Why do so few traces of their story remain there today?

Food For Thought: Stirring The Pot

The forgotten Chinese chef who transformed the way America cooks

Drinking Problem: Well Wishes

How thirsty cash crops could uproot vulnerable Californians

Dangerous Prophecies

The assumption that civil war is inevitable in America is inflammatory and corrosive.

John Milton's Hell

Cast into political exile, and into darkness by his failing eyesight, the poet was determined to accomplish “things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.”

Stephen Sondheim – A Giant in the Sky

The measureless, omnipresent influence of Stephen Sondheim.

God Save The Queen

It will be a mess when she’s gone

The End Of Trust

Suspicion is undermining the American economy.

How Self-Reliant Was Emerson?

Transcendentalism, the American philosophy that championed the individual, emerged from an exceptionally tight-knit community.

Peter Gelb – The Divo

All of Peter Gelb’s big problems running the Metropolitan Opera only got bigger during the pandemic.

Life After Nirvana

Dave Grohl is being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame for a second time. He’s got a lot to reflect on.

It Didn't Have to Be This Way

A brilliant account of 30,000 years of change upends the bedrock assumptions about human history.

The Men Who Are Killing American's Newspapers

Inside Alden Global Capital, the secretive hedge fund gutting newsrooms and damaging democracy

When Isis Was Queen

At the ancient Egyptian temples of Philae, Nubians gave new life to a vanishing religious tradition

Jonathan Franzen Thinks People Can Change

Even if his new book suggests it’s nearly impossible to make it stick.

Big Apples

The tree expert who turned the five boroughs into his personal orchard.

Tess Holliday – Bombshell

Model and body positivity activist Tess Holliday channels her inner Pamela Anderson for this sexy shoot.

Colson Whitehead Subverts the Crime Novel

In a country born of theft, everyone is an accomplice.

The Unwritten Rules of Black TV

For decades, Black writers and producers have had to tell stories that fit what white executives deemed “authentic.” Can a new generation finally change that?

1,960 minutes with …Isaac Fitzgerald

A pilgrimage with the most gregarious member of the literary internet.

And Not a Drop to Drink

A neo-noir set in an even thirstier Hollywood.