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You can now read about jazz in a kind of encyclopedia. It’s about 3 inches thick, with over 800 pages and 59 articles. WNYC’s Sara Fishko says leafing through it is – like the music itself – a positively non-linear experience. Here’s the next Fishko Files....

A new book sheds light on some of the mysteries that have surrounded the life and death of a celebrated violin prodigy born in the 1930’s. Sara Fishko has more in this edition of the Fishko Files...

A new book just out, "Chaplin and Agee," details the lifelong fascination—and later friendship—of a great writer with a great filmmaker. James Agee died 50 years ago this week, and as Sara Fishko tells us in this edition of the Fishko Files, Agee always marveled at what could happen on ...

In the late '30's, a short, simple song both horrified and fascinated those who heard it. A new book shows there's still controversy and painful history surrounding the song and its story.