America is a subject, a market, and an argument, sometimes in the same paragraph. These articles cover American themes in writing: the country’s stories, its publishing market, and the cultural currents writers work inside.
AmericaWhy the post-Cold War trade order is breaking down and America is bringing manufacturing home, from the pandemic and the chip shortage to war, shipping attacks and rare earths, and why the suppliers, workers and test labs behind each factory…
AmericaWhitman self-published Leaves of Grass in 1855 with no author name on the cover, set some of the type himself, wrote anonymous reviews praising his own book, and then revised it for the next thirty-seven years across six editions. He…
AmericaTwain invented an American voice for prose by writing the way people spoke, went bankrupt backing a typesetting machine, outlived most of his family, and produced late work so bleak his estate suppressed parts of it. The cheerful figure on…
AmericaMorrison spent nearly twenty years as a Random House editor building a canon of Black American writing, wrote her first novel at thirty-nine around a full-time job and two children, won the Nobel, and made one decision about audience that…
AmericaLondon was an oyster pirate, a seal hunter, a tramp, a jailed vagrant and a Klondike prospector before he was twenty-two, and he turned all of it into fiction that made him the highest-paid writer in America. He also produced…
AmericaAmerican Airlines 77 hit the Pentagon on 9/11 with barely a fraction of the attention that fell on New York. This is the book that fills that gap, tracing the building from its groundbreaking in 1941 through the civilians and…
AmericaOn the evening of 11 September 2001 I wrote about what I had watched that day, and never revised it. Twenty-five years later, some of it holds up and some of it is wrong in ways that took years to…
AmericaI did not set out to write this book. I set out to understand what I was watching on YouTube, and the view counts were too high for it to be fringe.
AmericaMy grandfather would talk about what happened to him. The problem was that nobody wanted to listen, because the story made people uncomfortable, and people get tired of being uncomfortable.
AmericaA Fortune 50 executive explained how his company had improved customer service by replacing people with chatbots built to frustrate callers into giving up. He said it like a routine process improvement.
AmericaAmerica's failures are real. This documents the operation that uses them to build a permanent indictment, who built it, who funds it, what it costs.
AmericaHe would talk about what happened to him. That was not the problem. The problem was that nobody wanted to listen.
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