Fighting for Freedom from a Juarez Jail
A week before Christmas, Shohn Huckabee and Carlos Quijas were driving back to El Paso after having Huckabee’s truck fixed at a mechanic’s shop [...]
Tangling with Frank Erwin
This is a continuation of Dugger’s piece “The Business of Education,” a review of Kenneth Ashworth’s Horns of A Dilemma. The book chronicles Ashworth’s [...]
Death of a Robber Baron
H.W. Brands’ The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Mansfield is the first book in Anchor Books’ American Portraits Series, which [...]
Following the Narrative
This is the part where I’m supposed to summarize in a few hundred words a novel whose narrative takes a “blackademic” on a mission [...]
Death and Taxes
Maybe the most surprising thing about David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King is how easy a read it is. At 538 pages, it’s anyone’s [...]