Joan Baum is a recovering academic from the City University of New York, who spent 25 years teaching literature and writing. She covers all areas of cultural history but particularly enjoys books at the nexus of the humanities and the sciences.
Author Larry Tye is not the first person to write about what the popularity of Superman means about our culture. But as Joan Baum says in this review of…
There are books of fiction and books of non-fiction. Arts critic Joan Baum has this review of a book that started off as non-fiction, and then the author…