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Fiction: ‘This Strange Eventful History’ by Claire Messud
The Wall Street Journal· 5 days agoLate in Claire Messud’s “This Strange Eventful History,” the aging patriarch François Cassar relates...
Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy: Why disaster was almost inevitable
New York Post· 2 days agoSix months prior to the Challenger disaster, booster rocket engineer Roger Boisjoly had written to...
A love letter to journalism: The Bee opinion editor recalls highs, lows of 50-year career
Fresno Bee via Yahoo News· 2 days agoI interviewed wardens in the main hallway of the maximum-security prison in Lompoc as some of the...
‘Challenger’ Review: How the Space Shuttle Disaster Happened
The Wall Street Journal· 4 days agoIt was so cold on the night of Jan. 27, 1986, that officials at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center...
What We Didn’t Learn From a Space Shuttle Disaster
New York Times· 1 day agoAs recounted in Adam Higginbotham’s “Challenger,” the 1986 tragedy that riveted a nation was a preventable lesson in hubris and human error. Sixteen...
‘American Bloods’ Review: All in the Family
The Wall Street Journal· 4 days agoJogging through a remnant of New England forest once considered by the Puritans to be the devil’s lair, John Kaag encounters a wolf. Among Thomas’s other...
The Inside Story of the First Untethered Spacewalk
Smithsonian Magazine· 6 days agoThe first space shuttle mission of 1984, the launch of Challenger on the cool, windless morning of Friday, February 3, was apparently perfect—and eagerly trailed by a national press anticipating ...
‘The Shooter at Midnight’ Review: A Slow Harvest of Justice
The Wall Street Journal· 4 days agoThe St. Louis defense attorney Bob Ramsey was often drawn to underdog clients, but he became...
‘Late Admissions’ Review: Glenn Loury’s Rise, Fall and Rise
The Wall Street Journal· 4 days agoIn 1984, when he was 35, Glenn Loury made Martin Luther King’s widow cry. A young black professor at...
‘Cloudland Revisited’ Review: S.J. Perelman’s Time Machine
The Wall Street Journal· 4 days agoS.J. Perelman rightly belongs on the Mount Rushmore of American humorists. Like many writers of his...
