CALIFORNIA
Michael Hiltzik goes behind the laboratory revolution that brought us modern warfare in Big Science.
MONTANA
The Nez Percé War comes in for a brilliant (1,376 pages!) examination in William T. Vollmann’s The Dying Grass.
HAWAII
William Finnegan’s life story, Barbarian Days, includes years of youthful surfing in the Pacific.
TEXAS
From Today to yesterday: forecaster Al Roker recounts 1900’s Galveston hurricane in The Storm of the Century.
MAINE
Forget “Vacationland”: Ann Beattie’s short-story collection The State We’re In proves her subtle, dark mastery.
NORTH CAROLINA
Pulitzer winner David McCullough returns with The Wright Brothers, the Kitty Hawk boys.
NEW YORK
Stephanie Clifford’s Everybody Rise is a Manhattan-set class satire with the bite to satisfy postrecession readers.
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