Always on the Lookout: Welcome to Voyeur Nation

Jonathan Raban’s third novel, Surveillance, opens with a school-bus explosion, the rescue workers scrambling to save survivors. And then the camera pulls back, revealing that the school-bus driver, Tad Zachary, is clearing the fake blood from his ears after being placed in the Red Cross van. He’s an actor, one of several under contract with Read More

Patriot’s Day In a Time of War

On this Sunday in Monmouth County, there were none of the trappings of a holiday.

On a sultry day in late June, men in impossibly heavy uniforms of scarlet and green and white and blue marched in formation through the dirt roads and cornfields of New Jersey’s Monmouth County, minutes away from a battle that Read More