Felt

Nearly ten years of bloodshed and political turmoil have followed the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. Soviet occupation not only proved a major trauma for the people of Afg...

Chapter 4 describes the core factor in the radicalization process on which this book focuses, namely how people use judgments of unfairness to fuel radical beliefs, extremist behav...

In ‘Ode’ (1935), Louis MacNeice writes of the necessity to ‘become the migrating bird following felt routes…And without soaring or swerving win by ignoring / The endlessly curving ...

The famous diarist Samuel Pepys felt responsible for the welfare of his three siblings, Tom, Pall, and John, an important aspect of his life that is often overlooked. In the case o...

The introduction outlines the central questions and arguments of the book. It summarizes the main, conflicting interpretations of the role of class in late twentieth-century Englan...

This chapter describes Bob Fosse’s work on the shows Redhead and The Conquering Hero. At Gwen Verdon’s insistence, Fosse was hired as both choreographer and director of Redhead, a ...

This chapter situates the black intellectual Horace Cayton into the vibrant community of Chicago's South Side during the Depression and World War II era. It details the research pr...

This chapter presents a distillation of a series of interviews conducted by the author. Two of these took place in London in July 2004; the third took place in New York City in Oct...