The Works of James Agee, Vol 5 Complete Film Criticism: Reviews, Essays, and Manuscripts edited by Charles Maland Last summer, a few weeks before the Mercury closed as a weekly …
Q&A: Whistle-blower and Tarbell founder Wendell Potter
Wendell Potter’s name has a sharp resonance in Washington. For more than 20 years he was an executive in public relations for Humana and CIGNA, until he went public, first …
Q&A: Mary Campbell, Author of ‘Charles Ellis Johnson and the Erotic Mormon Image’
With Mitt Romney, The Book of Mormon on Broadway, and the familiar sight of wholesome young men with name tags knocking politely on front doors, the Latter-day Saints have come …
On Its 20th Anniversary, David Madden’s ‘Sharpshooter’ Remains an Essential Civil War Novel
by Ryan McCormack The American Civil War, perhaps more than any other war fought by Americans, is a writer’s war. Hundreds of books have been published on the conflict since …
Andrew Scott Cooper Traces the Events Leading Up to Iran’s 1979 Revolution in ‘The Fall of Heaven’
Early in The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran (Henry Holt and Co.), Andrew Scott Cooper sums up the suspicions that informed Iranian culture …