J.J. Johnson's Low-Key New Album is a Winner

Wills has analyzed the legendary speech in a new book called "Lincoln At Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America." He says that, speaking for only three minutes that day, Lincoln changed the history of American political thought.

Our classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz has a new collection of poems, "Goodnight, Gracie." David Lehman calls it "a moving and inventive collection, his best and most ambitious to date." Lloyd is also music editor of The Boston Phoenix and is co-director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Massachusetts.