The Air Corps officers who believed precision bombing could win a war humanely, and Curtis LeMay burning Tokyo instead.
Why we misread people we do not know, built around the traffic stop that ended with Sandra Bland dead in a cell.
Nineteen New Yorker pieces, from Cesar Millan reading dogs to why there are dozens of mustards and only one ketchup.
Ankh-Morpork gets a newspaper, and the news gets a price.
John Hersey follows six survivors through the day of the bomb; the New Yorker gave it a whole issue.
Lawrence Wright on al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11; the Pulitzer.
Isabel Wilkerson follows three people in the Great Migration of six million Black Americans north.
Michael Herr's Vietnam, in the language the soldiers used; the best book about that war.
Sacco in a Bosnian enclave during the war; the second reportage comic.
Joe Sacco in Gaza and the West Bank in 1991; comics journalism begins.
Michael Pollan follows four meals from field to plate, starting with corn.
Tracy Kidder inside Data General building a computer in 1979; the first great tech book.
The Osage murders of the 1920s and the birth of the FBI; Grann before Scorsese.
Spider Jerusalem, a Hunter Thompson of the future, against the City; Warren Ellis.
Jason Schreier on how ten games got made, from Stardew Valley to The Witcher 3.
Tom Wolfe on the test pilots and the Mercury Seven.
A mother of ten disappeared in Belfast in 1972 and what the Troubles did; Patrick Radden Keefe.
The Sackler family and OxyContin; Keefe's dynasty of the opioid crisis.
The leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco in 1988; the deal book.
The murder of a Kansas farm family and the two men who did it; Capote's non-fiction novel.
Kapuscinski's first assignments abroad with the first historian in his pocket.
Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes and the blood test that never worked; Carreyrou's reporting.
The handful who bet against the housing bubble; Michael Lewis makes CDOs a story.
The fall of the Iranian monarchy in 1979 through photographs and fragments; Kapuscinski.
Haile Selassie's court told by its servants; Kapuscinski on power anywhere.
Russians remember the end of the Soviet Union and the 1990s; Alexievich's chorus.
Kapuscinski's forty years reporting Africa, from Ghana's independence to Rwanda.
Voices of the liquidators, widows and resettled villagers; Alexievich's Nobel oral history.
A nature columnist sent by mistake to cover an African war; Waugh's Fleet Street satire.
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