Review: Dennis Drabelle’s The Great American Railroad War August 23, 2012 By Bill Marx How Frank Norris and Ambrose Bierce helped keep a crooked railroad honest
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
Mad Men: Jon Ronson’s The Psychopath Test June 7, 2011 By Caroline H. Dworin A travelogue of insanity with the author of Them
Memoirs of an Accidental Sportswriter May 25, 2011 By Sam Eifling Robert Lipsyte’s new memoir recounts fifty years on the sports pages
Tabloid City and the Contours of Emptiness May 17, 2011 By Jennifer Miller Pete Hamill’s new novel explores a city in decline
Anatomy of a Journalist April 13, 2011 By Lauren Kirchner Janet Malcolm dissects a murder trial, and her own profession
Babel March 31, 2011 By Daniel Luzer Robert Lane Greene on why language is always, and never, in decline
We Love the Eighties March 23, 2011 By Jessica Loudis David Sirota traces the outsized influence of the “Me Decade”
A Brief History of "Save Darfur" March 16, 2011 By Andrew Stobo Sniderman The Darfur lobby was historic. But was it effective?
Pretty Pictures, Hard Times February 10, 2011 By Daniel Luzer A look back at the illustrated magazines of the 1840s
The News from Norway January 5, 2011 By Kathy Gilsinan A comprehensive look at the history of the Norwegian American press
Number Cruncher November 24, 2010 By Lauren Kirchner A new biography vindicates a forgotten innovator
