When I was a child, my father would sometimes mention The Great Southern Novel he’d always wanted to write. I remember the protagonist as a poor, small-town man who’d somehow made a go of it in politics and risen to … Read more
Roger Lowenstein Roger Lowenstein is the author of six nonfiction books, including his latest, American’s Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve. A former Wall Street Journal reporter, he … Read more
The National Association of Science Writers gave Erik Vance a 2015 Science in Society award for science reporting for his story “Why Nothing Works,” published in Discover magazine, saying his “masterful command of metaphor and … Read more
Complex litigation of the kind typically handled by large corporate law firms contains no shortage of absurdities; indeed, absurdity can sometimes seem to be its basic condition, despite the sobering amounts of money at stake for the parties and the … Read more
Boris Muñoz Boris Muñoz has spent most of his journalistic career in Venezuela, but has lived in the U.S. both while pursuing a PhD at Rutgers and since his year as a Nieman … Read more