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The Gospel of Paul
"Vintage Ingram: even at his own book launch, he could not resist promoting someone else’s."
Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca
O Pioneer
In the early 19th century, any surgery was a brutal endeavor.
The Fight for America’s Classrooms
The Teacher Wars is a lively case history of the nation’s teaching corps.
A New Collection of California Prose
"Trying to capture California in one book is like attempting to catch a hurricane in a shot glass."
Virtues of Grammar: The Science and Ethics of Style
Intellectual imagination isn’t enough. Persuasion requires the exercise of the moral imagination too.
Muttnik: Canine Rocketeers in the USSR
Rigged with a faulty cooling system, Sputnik 2 was a lemon and killed Laika in three hours, frying her like Icarus.
Chasing the Origins of Gonzo in South America
An Interview with Brian Kevin
Evolution Between the Sofa Cushions
Life has evolved its way around our pesticides, antibiotics, and chemotherapies.
Fatal Attraction: Love and Murder in Tennessee
Love and murder and teenage girls in Memphis.
When a River Is a World: Twigger on the Nile
Stories of excess, love, passion, splendor, and death. Plenty of death.
Varieties of Hatred
"Why did the Nazis kill the Jews? Nearly 70 years since the end of World War II, the causes and meaning of the Holocaust remain as high on historians’ agendas as ever."
The Longing of the Collector
D.J. Lee on Curiosity’s Cats: Writers on Research. Edited by Bruce Joshua Miller.
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