Caroline Fraser

‘Anxious for a Mayflower’

In A Nation of Descendants, Francesca Morgan traces the American use and abuse of genealogy from the Daughters of the American Revolution to Roots.

A Nation of Descendants: Politics and the Practice of Genealogy in US History

by Francesca Morgan

May 12, 2022 issue

From Hell and Back

A harrowing, suppressed memoir by Gertrude Beasley and a revisionist western by Robin McLean add up to a savage indictment of regional misogyny.

My First Thirty Years

by Gertrude Beasley, with a foreword by Nina Bennett

Pity the Beast

by Robin McLean

January 13, 2022 issue

Where Sheep May Safely Graze

A cri de coeur against our current state of abject agricultural illiteracy, James Rebanks’s new book may be the most passionate ecological corrective since Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring.

The Shepherd’s Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape

by James Rebanks

Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey

by James Rebanks

October 7, 2021 issue

Murder Is My Business

In the true crime genre’s latest iteration, writers, reporters, bloggers, documentary filmmakers, and podcast hosts have taken a soiled brand and turned it into a collective exercise in retributive justice, recording and correcting the history of sexual violence.

True Crime Detective Magazines 1924–1969

by Eric Godtland, edited by Dian Hanson

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

by Michelle McNamara, with an introduction by Gillian Flynn and an afterword by Patton Oswalt

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark

an HBO documentary series directed by Liz Garbus, Elizabeth Wolff, Myles Kane, and Josh Koury

My Favorite Murder

a podcast hosted by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

The Ripper

a BBC/Netflix documentary series directed by Jesse Vile and Elena Wood

Tales of the Grim Sleeper

a documentary film written and directed by Nick Broomfield, Barney Broomfield, and Marc Hoeferlin

Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession

edited by Sarah Weinman, with an introduction by Patrick Radden Keefe

The Stranger Beside Me: The Shocking Inside Story of Serial Killer Ted Bundy

by Ann Rule

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July 22, 2021 issue

The Stench of American Neglect

In her new book, the activist Catherine Coleman Flowers chronicles her efforts to expose criminally deficient sanitation in her home county of Lowndes, Alabama and around the US.

Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret

by Catherine Coleman Flowers, with a foreword by Bryan Stevenson

February 25, 2021 issue

The Representative

Ilhan Omar’s ability to survive, even thrive, under chaotic conditions appears to have been a harbinger of a taste for political battle.

This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman

by Ilhan Omar with Rebecca Paley

November 19, 2020 issue

Red Wedding

November 5, 2020 issue

A mother and child in Central Park, New York City, 2015

No Haven

In ‘This Is All I Got,’ a report about a year in the life of a homeless single mother in New York City, Lauren Sandler finds the intractable source of homelessness in the piratical inequities of the housing market.

This Is All I Got: A New Mother’s Search for Home

by Lauren Sandler

October 22, 2020 issue

Confronting Male Violence

For centuries, men have been saying, “I’ll tear her all to pieces,” and doing it, too

No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

by Rachel Louise Snyder

May 28, 2020 issue

Working-Class Women and Warren

April 9, 2020 issue

Elizabeth Warren; drawing by Anders Nilsen

Warren in the Trap

In her rhetoric, in the media, and in voters’ reactions to her, perceptions of Elizabeth Warren have always been driven by gender.

March 12, 2020 issue

Letter

Albion M. Urdank

Working-Class Women and Warren

April 9, 2020 issue

Pete Buttigieg at a presidential campaign event, Exeter, New Hampshire, May 2019

The Road Taken

‘Shortest Way Home: One Mayor’s Challenge and a Model for America’s Future’ by Pete Buttigieg

Shortest Way Home: One Mayor’s Challenge and a Model for America’s Future

by Pete Buttigieg

July 18, 2019 issue

An abandoned farmhouse, 2005; photograph by Eugene Richards from The Run-On of Time, the catalog of a recent exhibition that originated at the George Eastman Museum and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. It is distributed by Yale University Press.

‘Our Bodies Were Born into Hard Labor’

Sarah Smarsh’s ‘Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth’

Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth

by Sarah Smarsh

February 21, 2019 issue

‘A Strange, Bloody, Broken Beauty’

Dear Husband,

by Joyce Carol Oates

Little Bird of Heaven

by Joyce Carol Oates

May 27, 2010 issue

Confidence Games

The Silver Screen

by Maureen Howard

December 16, 2004 issue

Heart of Darkness

The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art

by Joyce Carol Oates

Rape: A Love Story

by Joyce Carol Oates

I'll Take You There

by Joyce Carol Oates

The Tattooed Girl

by Joyce Carol Oates

I Am No One You Know

by Joyce Carol Oates

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June 24, 2004 issue

Customs of the Country

That Old Ace in the Hole

by Annie Proulx

March 27, 2003 issue

The Mormon Murder Case

March 13, 2003 issue

The Mormon Murder Case

Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows

by Will Bagley

Red Water

by Judith Freeman

November 21, 2002 issue

Pretty in the Sunlight

Paradise

by Larry McMurtry

October 4, 2001 issue