West Coast Wit

April 2: “Think Walter Winchell crossed with Jon Stewart, with a little Anthony Lewis and Lawrence Durrell thrown in.”  

Updike

Adam Begley delivers a finely wrought portrait of the literary magician whose novels and short stories spun the raw stuff of suburban “middleness” into a hoard of glittering treasure.

Mother of God

At just 18, Paul Rosolie left behind his suburban New Jersey life for the remote region of Peru where the Amazon begins. His education included giant snakes, tribespeople hostile and friendly, and the incalculable, threatend beauty of the rainforest. This is nature...

Machine Made

“Tammany Hall” has become iconic shorthand for a style of governance and politicking that seemingly long ago vanished from the Earth.  Journalist and historian Terry Golway finds the resonance of the famed organization.