In October, Pantheon published my nonfiction book And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank. An investigation into two infamo
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Photos by Claire Fogler
Ever since a San Francisco Chronicle story about two rival Northern California pet cemeteries led to his 1978 debut film, Gates of H
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I don’t believe that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed killed Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, as the American government recently declared, first to PearlR
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It was my father who first told me Compton was not a good place to go after dark. That was about 20 years ago, but he was actually talking about
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Photo by Debra DiPaolo
There is a moment, an August morning in 1988, a specific moment on a sunny, smoggy day in central Hollywood among the reek of stale office co
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Photo by Debra DiPaolo
What I Saw at the Parisian Room
Lord, the clothes I have seen on jazz musicians. Lord, lord, lord. I have seen collars long and pointy, fit
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In February 2002, Vice President Dick Cheney’s Office sent Joseph C. Wilson IV to Africa to investigate claims that the Iraqi government had attempted to pur
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The New York Times has finally picked a new Hollywood correspondent and, drumroll please, it’s Sharon Waxman, the Los Angeles–based Style section entertainment w
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“What the hell is that?”
Tim Watkins, director of the Watts Labor Community Action Committee (WLCAC), had just dumped a handful of .357 Magnum hollowpo
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Oh, say — can you see, by the dawn’s early light, what so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming, whose broad stripes and bright stars
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On a recent afternoon a Latino woman and her son wearily shuffle past a makeshift shrine in front of a shabby apartment complex on
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When Arnold went on Leno to announce that he was running for governor — back when he looked like a cunning demagogue rather than another weaseling hack —
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