Headshots

Thirty never-before-collected essays—many of them profiles—by the Pulitzer Prize–winning and bestselling author of The Looming Tower, Going Clear, and The Plague Year. These brilliant pieces reveal the broad spectrum of Wright’s cultural and political observations over the past thirty-five years.

Spanning more than thirty-five years of Lawrence Wright’s reporting for The New Yorker, Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone, and other magazines, these pieces remind us what a brilliant observer Wright has been of institutions, of political maneuverings, and of people—dangerous, eccentric, or beloved.

Some of the essays included:

ORPHANS OF JONESTOWN (1993): A profile of Jim Jones’s two sons who, following the Jonestown massacre, were left alone in a society uncomprehending of their experience.

A RAPIST’S HOMECOMING (1995): The ethical dilemma of a prison therapist, concerned… Keep Reading