Category Archives: Journalism

Lawrence Wright (b. 1947) fuses investigative reporting, literary journalism, theatrical writing, screenwriting, and religious inquiry into a single narrative method. Across four decades, Wright has emerged as a major interpreter of modern institutions under strain. His books treat terrorism, intelligence … Continue reading →

Bryan Burrough’s (b. 1961) career maps the rise and contraction of prestige print journalism and documents transformations within American elite life across finance, federal law enforcement, radical politics, regional mythology, and corporate culture. Born in Memphis and raised largely in … Continue reading →

Mark Bowden (b. 1951) belongs to the last generation of American narrative journalists trained inside the metropolitan newspaper before its economic collapse. His career maps the migration of long-form reportage from the city desk to the national magazine to the … Continue reading →

Matthew Randazzo V (b. 1984) holds an unusual position in twenty-first century American nonfiction. He works between literary journalism, oral history, regional ethnography, and political anthropology. He built his reputation through long collaboration with gangsters, political fixers, wrestlers, hustlers, and … Continue reading →

David Sanger (b. 1960) belongs to the generation of American journalists whose careers track the transformation of the postwar national security state from a Cold War bipolar architecture into the technologically integrated security apparatus of the twenty-first century. His work … Continue reading →

Evan Osnos (b. 1976) belongs to a small cohort of American journalists who write for the upper end of the prestige magazine world. Their authority rests on sociological observation rather than partisan advocacy. His career trajectory, from the Chicago Tribune … Continue reading →

Let’s write about the publishing industry’s labor practices, the casting-couch arrangements at the magazines and houses, the way assignments and book contracts got distributed through personal networks. Such a book applies to the editorial class the investigative rigor the press … Continue reading →

Mark Leibovich sits at the intersection of political reporting and sociological narrative, and his subject across three decades remains the cultural reproduction of American elites. Leibovich treats Washington less as a constitutional order than as a social habitat. He approaches … Continue reading →