David Luhrssen

(Trouser Press) If you grew up in the late ‘70s feeling somehow … different from your locker mates and home roomers, you'll immediately relate to Tim Sommer's book.

John Barrymore, one of the most admired stage actors of his day, is remembered mostly for one film role.

Tom Holland gets his fourth bite at the Spider-Man role in Brand New Day. Spider-Man: Brand New Day In Theaters July 31

(TrineDay) The CIA broke U.S. law in the ‘80s by arming Nicaragua's Contra rebels.

Bayliss uses his slender sources well (most ancient writings have not survived) to produce a picture of decidedly mixed messages. Sparta's story, he writes, shows “why we should be careful when we chose our heroes.”

(Falcon Guides) Wisconsin-reared author Chad Turner describes himself as a “full-time vagabond” and claims he once cut short an adventure

Opening this weekend at the Downer, Cookie Queens is a documentary on Girl Scouts during a cookie sale.

Maybe director Richard Fleischer learned from the example of his father. Max Fleischer, the innovator of early animation behind Betty Boop and

Naomi Kanakia is a trans blogger of South Asian heritage who's become something of an activist for the Great Books. While acknowledging the usual complaints about dead White male authors (she capitalizes the W), Kanakia regards the books they wrote as well worth … she might avoid say studying. The close reading she was forced to do in college nearly killed her interest in the subject. Humanities departments have done much to kill interest in the humanities. Kanakia advocates “lay reading” unhindered by too much theory. “I sank into the dream of the text, experiencing it with as much immediacy as I could,” she writes.

(Wisconsin Historical Society Press) Pao Lor left Laos when he was five, but the country of his birth followed him to Wisconsin.