When some people heard I was working on a book called The Gospel According to Bob Dylan, they asked, "Are you serious?" These people don't see Dylan as a religious artist.I have in mind those with only passing ...

Are your kids ready for college? Studies say only 32 percent of high school seniors graduate with the skills they need for college. About 60 percent of freshman in the California State University syst...

Harbor Press, 2007, 240 pp., $14.95, www.harborpress.com Adolescent psycholo­gist Michael Bradley chronicles the broken, yet heroic, lives of ordinary students he’s encountered as a school, famil...