Meet the first two African American women in the White House press corps Excerpts from Alice Dunnigan's Alone atop the Hill and James McGrath Morris' Eye on the Struggle about Ethel Payne February 10, 2015 By The Editors
When McGovern met Mailer October 26, 2012 By Jordan Michael Smith Revisiting an unjustly forgotten account of the 1972 political conventions
Fact-checking at The New Yorker October 23, 2012 By Peter Canby An excerpt from The Art of Making Magazines
New Yorker writers dish about their craft October 8, 2012 By Abby Ohlheiser An event with The Moth saw writers telling "tales out of school"
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
Behind Big Oil, the original big business August 6, 2012 By Gloria Dawson A review of Steve Coll’s Private Empire
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
Douglas Brinkley talks Cronkite June 13, 2012 By Paul Starobin An interview with the legendary newsman’s biographer
Nonfiction’s ‘meta’ moment May 23, 2012 By David Riedel Reviewing an anthology of “writings about the writings”
What it takes to win the White House May 14, 2012 By Jordan Michael Smith A review of Samuel L. Popkin’s The Candidate
The Authentic Mexican Cookoff April 19, 2012 By Michael Canyon Meyer Gustavo Arellano, Rick Bayless, and the media’s quest for purity in ethnic cuisine
