author archive
What Middle Class?
How bourgeois America is getting recast as a proletariat
Marian Kester Coombs
September 10, 2015
Rockwell Kent’s Country
In the McCarthy era, painting and politics didn't mix.
Marian Kester Coombs
May 9, 2014
To Save JFK
Stephen King recreates an incredible world—1950s America.
Marian Kester Coombs
July 5, 2012
Unraveling the Undead
Our obsession with zombies, from the Congo to Hollywood
Marian Kester Coombs
February 16, 2012
American Folk Hero
Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World, John Szwed, Viking, 448 pages
Marian Kester Coombs
November 21, 2011
Kansas Still Bleeds
The Wichita Divide: The Murder of Dr. George Tiller and the Battle over Abortion, Stephen Singular, St. Martin's Press, 368 pages
Marian Kester Coombs
July 13, 2011
All She Needs is Love
Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me by Pattie Boyd
Marian Kester Coombs
December 3, 2007
The High Cost of Low Prices
The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World’s Most Powerful Company Really Works—and How It’s Transforming the American Economy, Charles Fishman, Penguin, 294 pages
Marian Kester Coombs
May 22, 2006