Joe Hill

Esquire returns to its roots with a new short fiction series while making it new, e-book style....

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"Vikings in the Attic: In Search of Nordic America" University of Minnesota Press, $22.95 Scandinavian culture, to use a Swedish slant, is more than hardtack and herring. Eric Dregni grew up fourth-generation Scandinavian in Minnesota of mostly...

Whether it was people wanting to help a stranger... "I think it's a good cause to support this gentleman," says rider John Dudley. Rider Joe Hill agrees, "We come out to support the Bennett boy." .. or friends hoping to shoulder the burden.. "You...

2.5 stars (out of 4)   Besides his not-insignificant role in Rage Against the Machine as one of the most innovative guitarists of the last 20 years, Tom Morello has had a long history as an activist. It’s part of his family’s DNA; his...

Joe Hill, a radical labor activist and songwriter who was executed by a firing squad nearly 96 years ago in Utah, is remembered not for a song he wrote, but for one written about him and popularized by Joan Baez: "I never died" said (Joe), "I never...

Edgar Allen Poe and John Milton had their time in the sun at San Diego's Comic-Con....

Doesn’t it seem like everybody in the world is weighing in with their official “Best of the Year” list? Yeah, well, here’s mine. Here are my Top Picks, Can’t Miss ‘Em, and Go Back and Find Them Books for 2010....

Let's face it: If Homer or Virgil were writing today, their work would probably get shelved in the fantasy section of the bookstore rather than in "Classics of Western Literature." "Oh, c'mon," I imagine some bookseller saying, "the publisher says this...