Steve Nathans-kelly

In his new novel Crucible, the acclaimed author and independent filmmaker John Sayles uses a graceful device to mark the passage of time in a novel that chronicles fifteen tumultuous years in mostly Depression-era Detroit in a multi-threaded, character-ri... See more

“The legend lives on,” begins Gordon Lightfoot’s enduring 1976 ballad of a 1975 shipwreck, “ The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald .” 50 years later his words sound like a self-fulfilling prophecy. Although the doomed freighter, whose demise the song chronic... See more

Described by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as “the most dangerous man in America” when he ran as the Republican nominee for president in 1964, 60 years later Barry Goldwater is a figure rarely mentioned in American political discourse, except when ... See more