R.E.M.’s music is in part a blend of styles that already exist, and in shifting our gaze, it reinvents the way we look at these genres. Between the tale of a cartoonist who pretended to survive ...

VornDick said her “historical intuition was ignited” by stories about Eliza, passed down by family descendants. Research led her to write the book, “Eliza’s True Story: The First Biography ...