Read The Soul of a New Machine

Lawrence Wright on al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11; the Pulitzer.

Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes and the blood test that never worked; Carreyrou's reporting.

Jason Schreier on how ten games got made, from Stardew Valley to The Witcher 3.

Scarlett O Hara from Tara to the burning of Atlanta; a thousand pages and the most popular American novel.

Sethe, a runaway slave, and the ghost of the daughter she killed; Morrison's masterpiece.

Celie's letters to God and to her sister in 1930s Georgia; Alice Walker's Pulitzer.

Ignatius J. Reilly, hot-dog vendor and medievalist, against New Orleans; published eleven years after the author's suicide.

A nature columnist sent by mistake to cover an African war; Waugh's Fleet Street satire.