John McPhee's career as a literary journalist has been tangled with the history of The New Yorker magazine since he became a staff writer in 1965. A list of classic literary journalism in the twentiet...
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John McPhee's career as a writer began during the 1960s when American nature writing was infused with the social and political urgencies of late-twentieth-century environmentalism. The modern age of e...
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We consume. We rarely think of how food or energy is created or how it gets to where we purchase it. We may see a truck, but we rarely think about large ships or the trains that deliver AmericaR...
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We consume. We rarely think of how food or energy is created or how it gets to where we purchase it. We may see a truck, but we rarely think about large ships or the trains that deliver AmericaR...
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You might not think it's such an earthshaking issue. You might think the question has been settled. But it turns out that a number of highly regarded journalists still reject using a tape recorder ...
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