Review: Dennis Drabelle’s The Great American Railroad War How Frank Norris and Ambrose Bierce helped keep a crooked railroad honest August 23, 2012 By Bill Marx
Review: The Year of the Gadfly August 16, 2012 By Matt B. Weir A teenage journalist finds herself in Jennifer Miller’s resonant first novel
Q&A: Confront and Conceal author David Sanger July 2, 2012 By Paul Starobin “There’s nothing ‘childish’ about raising issues of great public import”
How the US captured the real 9/11 mastermind June 29, 2012 By Jordan Michael Smith Terry McDermott and Josh Meyer take us deep inside the hunt for KSM
Edward Luce charts America’s decline June 28, 2012 By Daniel Luzer Is the United States past its prime?
America’s forgotten war June 27, 2012 By Jordan Michael Smith Historian Troy Bickham revisits the War of 1812
Nonfiction’s ‘meta’ moment May 23, 2012 By David Riedel Reviewing an anthology of “writings about the writings”
The Literary Roots of the Gay Revolution February 2, 2012 By Jordan Michael Smith Reviewing Christopher Bram’s Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America
A Cook’s Tour with Molly Ivins November 3, 2011 By Nicola Kean A recipe-laden memoir of the columnist’s life and times
Notes from Underground October 26, 2011 By Cid Standifer The posthumous memoir of an alternative press pioneer
Defining “Fair Use” for the Digital Age October 12, 2011 By David Riedel Aufderheide and Jaszi on how to put the balance back in copyright
A Stranger Everywhere October 5, 2011 By Jeremy Axelrod Ze’ev Rosenkranz traces Albert Einstein’s complicated relationship with Zionism
Jonathan Raban Takes the Scenic Route September 28, 2011 By Phil Campbell A review of Driving Home, the essayist’s latest collection
Failures of Vision September 21, 2011 By Michael Canyon Meyer Errol Morris interrogates photography’s place in the public imagination
Searching for D.B. Cooper August 10, 2011 By Jordan Michael Smith Geoffrey Gray joins the hunt for the vanishing bandit
