People in My Neighborhood Live in a neighborhood long enough, you get to know everyone by face, if not by name. But who are these people, really, and what do they do? Rosecrans Baldwin describes a few local characters from Brooklyn, and Danny Gregory draws blind.

...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Worlds Apart This review is two weeks late. And I know that there could be many very believable reasons for this, but…

Revolution Rock If rock music used to have a message, then rarely was that message stronger than for South American revolutionaries, for whom it was a significant part of the struggle. Patrick Ambrose traces a history of social uprising, and explains how the music helped fuel it.

Branded for Life Teenagers: They’ve got cell phones, credit cards, and brand identities. John Warner reviews Alissa Quart’s Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers to find a shared past not too dissimilar, and a terrifying prospect that may lie ahead of us all.