Writers & Libraries

  Euan Ward, "Lost Letters by Mary, Queen of Scots, Uncovered by Amateur Code Breakers,"  New York Times, Feb. 8, 2023.  https://w...

 Dan Bouk. Democracy's Data the Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them .  Ferrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. I had read ab...

 Nancy McLean. The Disinformation Machine. Orion Magazine, 2022.  https://orionmagazine.org/article/koch-network-climate-change-misinformati...

 Kate Dwyer. "Lots of People Want to Check Out this Library", New York Times,  January 16, 2022, p. ST3.  After Dr. Mackesy's ...

 Lucy Sherriff. "Why beavers were parachuted into the Idaho wilderness 73 years ago," National Geographic,      Sept. 16, 2021.  h...

 Judith Shulevitz,  "The Radical Feminism of a 17th-Century Priest,"  September 2021, Atlantic pp. 94-101. I stumbled upon Poulain...

 Ian Frazier, "Rereading Lolita" New Yorker, December 14, 2020 pp. 30-35. As an unformed kid, I envied his self-assurance and Olym...

 Jennifer Schuessler,  "A Fake? Or Biblical Gold?" New York Times March 28, 2021, p.AR8- AR9      Dershowitz also traveled to the ...

 Vinson Cunningham, "Personal Jesus: What Thomas Jeffereson did to the Gospels," New Yorker, January 4 & 11, 2021,  pp. 77-80....

Neil Genzlinger, "Zara Steiner, 91, Historian Who Plumbed World War I," New York Times,  March 6, 2020, p. B16.      She went ...

Jennifer Schuessler, “Robert Caro’s Papers Find a Home,” N ew York Times , January 9, 2020, p. C1.       The books are already monumental...

Katherine Q. Seelye, “Barbara Testa Dies at 91: A Discovery in Her Attic Rocked the Literary World,” (Obituaries) New York Times , January ...

Susan Orlean, The Library Book , 2018. The story of the Los Angeles Public Library and the 1986 fire required years of researc...

Hillary Howard, "A Dusty Artifact Show the Reach of a Social Reformer," New York Times , August 25, 2019, p. Y29.      The tru...

Betsy Mason and Greg Miller, All Over the Map: A Catrographic Odyssey ," National Geographic, 2018. Some of these maps come from ...

Tina Jordan, "Inside the List," New York Times Book Review , Oct. 7, 2018, p. 24.      In the summer of 1994, not long after fin...

Jennifer Schuessler, “Jill Lepore, Master of Microhistories, Tackles Endeavor of a Grander Scale,” New York Time s, Sept. 17, 2018, p. C1-2...

Adam Nossiter, "A Famous Nude gets a Face and an Identity: Historian Solves Mystery of a Gustave Courbet Painting," New York Times...

David Streitfeld. “ Be Afraid, Jeff Bezos, be Very Afraid : Citing Amazon’s Dominance, a ‘Legal Prodigy’ Argues for a new Approach to Antit...

David Baron, American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World,  Liveright Publ...