TITLE: Recent work on hypergeometric functions
QUESTION [9 upvotes]: Does anyone know of a monograph/survey on the modern history of (basic or elliptic) hypergeometric functions and their applications?
I haven't had much time to search the literature, and because it is summer it is hard to reach professors or specialists, which is why I am asking the question here. It is also likely that there are obvious choices out there that I am unaware of because of my ignorance in the field. I would appreciate it a lot if along with the suggestions you could give a quick description of what the book/article treats.

REPLY [5 votes]: Hyper Geometric Functions, My Love: Modular Interpretations of Configuration Spaces (Aspects of Mathematics) by Masaaki Yoshida 
Discriminants, Resultants, and Multidimensional Determinants 
Israel M. Gelfand, Mikhail Kapranov, Andrei Zelevinsky 
I heard a talk by Rivoal a decade back when he had just had his breakthrough concerning irrationality of zeta values.  He quoted some very classical but not well-known results and got asked where he learned them.  He recommended this book:
Confluent Hypergeometric Functions  L. J. Slater