Timothy Leonard: 7 books

A writer rents a room from a depressed woman in Eugene, Oregon. She had issues: a failed marriage, custody battles, being a convicted felon, employment struggles, and anger. He discusses her life spiraling out of control with a ghost.

Once upon a time there was a blind Touareg writer called Omar. He lived in the Sahara. The Sahara is a big place.One day a Vietnam Veteran showed up. Then 9/11 happened.It was chance, aptitude and timing."Whoops!" said, Omar, "looks like a heavy, deep real shift in global perspectives.""Yes,"...

Ice girl lives in Banlung, Ratanakiri, Cambodia. She is a seller.Always be closing.She meets Leo, a wandering Chinese boy.He was released from a Chinese Re-education through Reform labor Camp near the Gobi.He walked to Sichuan and paid his respects to family. He walked to Fujian where...

A prescient Vietnam Veteran booked a flight to Morocco on 1 September 2001.On 9/11 in the Sahara he met Omar, a blind Touareg writer in exile. They never took possession of that event.They moved to Cadiz, Spain and later an isolated mountain pueblo where they wrote about the past, present...

Why does the artworld often privilege one cultural form over another? Why does it grant more attention to reviews in, say, Artforum over ARTnews? And how can an artist once hailed as visionary be dismissed as derivative just a few years later? Exploring the ever-shifting estimations of value that...

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales was the subject of the first volume in the Approaches to Teaching series, published in 1980. But in the past thirty years, Chaucer scholarship has evolved dramatically, teaching styles have changed, and new technologies have created extraordinary opportunities for studying...

Northern bobwhites are one of the most popular game birds in the United States. In Texas alone, nearly 100,000 hunters take to the field each fall and winter to pursue wild bobwhite quail. Texas is arguably the last remaining state with sufficient habitat to provide quail-hunting opportunities on...