There are numerous dangers that a reviewer must avoid while doing their work, chief among them the impulse to simply dismiss a work because of preconceived notions or prejudices that can taint their ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns addresses this question and more in “The Dust Bowl,” a new two-part, four-hour documentary that airs at 7 p.m. Sunday and 8 p.m. Wednesday on PBS (Time Warner Cable channels 12 and ...

1. In “The Grapes of Wrath,” John Steinbeck captures the suffocating dust storms and drought that plagued the Great Plains during the 1930s. “All day the dust sifted down from the sky, and the next ...