When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By the time Walt Disney’s “Fantasia” premiered at Manhattan’s Broadway Theater on Nov. 13, 1940, ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Michael Tisserand WILD MINDS The Artists and Rivalries That Inspired the Golden Age of Animation ...

Reid Mitenbuler is the author of Bourbon Empire. His writing has appeared in the Atlantic, the Daily Beast, Slate, Quartz, Salon, and other publications. He lives with his wife in Los Angeles "In 1911 ...

Danish explorer Peter Freuchen was said to be one of history's most interesting men. Peter Freuchen spent 20 years living with the Inuit in Greenland, established a trading post that would be the home ...

In Wild Minds (Atlantic Monthly, Dec.), journalist Mitenbuler delves into the golden age of animation. How did the idea for this book come about? I got really interested in Fleischer Studios, because ...

In this savory history of bourbon whiskey, journalist Mitenbuler recounts the journey of this archetypal American libation: distilled from a mix of primarily corn and with grains, and aged in ...

Journalist Mitenbuler (Bourbon Empire) casts the creators of animated cartoons as characters themselves in this rollicking history of the first 50 years of animation. The author tracks animation as a ...