Dreaming of Michael Lewis The New New Thing could have aged poorly, but it endures as an example of the author at his understated best January 5, 2015 By Mimi Swartz
Among the Mongers August 24, 2011 By Jeffrey Greggs Henry Mayhew and the pursuit of history, from the bottom up
Punk’s Prophet July 25, 2011 By Tim Marchman Greil Marcus’s seminal work Ranters and Crowd Pleasers: Punk in Pop Music, 1977-92
The Paper Chase May 6, 2011 By Michael Shapiro For tabloid king Emile Gauvreau, it took a lifetime to slow down
Not for Laughs March 15, 2011 By David Hajdu A pathbreaking look at the dark comic genius behind "Skippy"
Her Great Depression January 20, 2011 By Claire Dederer Re-reading Betty MacDonald’s Anybody Can Do Anything, on the Northwest’s bust years
What It Was Like September 9, 2010 By Connie Schultz Dispatches told why kids from Ohio came back so ‘eerily old’
The Reporter Whom Time Forgot May 13, 2010 By Michael Shapiro How Cornelius Ryan’s The Longest Day changed journalism
What Happened Here? February 25, 2010 By David L. Ulin Joan Didion’s forty-year-old cautionary tale still fits America
A Failure of Skepticism December 9, 2009 By Russell Working Stolen Valor and the effort to expose bogus battlefield heroics
Of Heroes and Humans September 22, 2009 By Michael Shapiro Jim Brosnan wrote about himself, and sports writing evolved
‘The Greatest Liar’ July 28, 2009 By Nicholson Baker Is Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year a work of journalism?
Dead Reckoning May 18, 2009 By Thomas Mallon Manchester’s flawed, essential chronicle of the JFK assassination
