Wrongful Imprisonment and the Limits of Tabloid Journalism
Stolen Years tells infuriating tales of wrongful convictions. Its tabloid style has zip—and avoids any real discussion of the system that makes those horror stories possible.
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The ‘Pacific Standard’ Pop-Culture Picks of 2015
The best things our staff read, wore, and binge-watched in the past year.
How Do You Make a Living, Book Podcaster?
Noah Davis talks to Angela Ledgerwood about the economics of running "Lit Up," a podcast about books and the literary world.
Bad Religion’s Greg Graffin and the Co-Existence Theory of Evolution
Is nature nasty, brutish, and at war with itself—or is it all about co-existence? A punk rocker argues the latter.
Shelf Help: ‘The Wrong Hands: Popular Weapons Manuals and Their Historic Challenges to a Democratic Society’
The aura of deviance around mayhem manuals.
The Government Report as Book as Object
The Justice Department’s “Ferguson Report” will join a small number of significant public documents to be bound and sent to bookstores.
A Historic Eruption
In Island on Fire, Alexandra Witze and Jeff Kanipe put recent volcanic events into the context of the legendary 1783 eruption of Iceland's Laki.
How Do You Make a Living, CEO Ghostwriter?
Business book ghostwriter Derek Lewis talks about his unusual path to the unusual profession, his working relationship with clients, and his novelist aspirations.
Shelf Help: ‘Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy’
Melvin Konner makes the case for female dominance.
