Smokin’ Joe, Out from Ali’s Shadow
In "Sparring with Smokin' Joe," CUNY journalism professor Glenn Lewis recalls the epic rivalry between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali -- one that transc...
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Rethinking Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter is often thought of as a failed one-term president, but in his new political biography of Carter, The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency ...
Strange But True: The Psychiatrist Who Believed in Alien Abduction
Ralph Blumenthal's "The Believer" tells the beguiling story of John Mack, a renowned Harvard psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize winner whose career came ...
A Searching Story of Love, Blood and Legacy
Brooklyn College alumnus Robert Jones Jr.'s debut novel, "The Prophets," is a different kind of love story: It reaches across centuries, continents an...
We Are the Wars We Wage
In his novel Missionaries, Phil Klay--Hunter College MFA alum, Iraq War veteran and National Book Award winner--explores the globalization of war thro...
Still They Persisted: Inside the Long Battle to Adopt the ERA
CUNY legal scholar Julie Suk discusses "We the Women: The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment," her book about the women behind the long...
Carmen Boullosa Takes on Tolstoy’s Problem With Women
A conversation from Mexico City with Carmen Boullosa, one of the world's most celebrated Spanish-language writers and a CUNY literary treasure whose 1...
Ingenious Engineer: The Brilliant, Eccentric Life of John Roebling
The beloved Brooklyn Bridge was one of the most daring feats of 19th Century engineering. The man who designed it was equally daring and a paradox of ...
Lincoln’s 13-Day Journey to Save America
In February 1861, Abraham Lincoln journeyed 13 days and 1,900 miles by rail from his Illinois home to his inauguration in Washington. It was a long, t...
A Poetic Take on Life, Death and the Movies
In her latest collection of poems, Donna Masini, a professor of English at Hunter College, moves back and forth in time--and human experience--as she ...