Understandably, the ambitious man’s friend fled for protection to the one place where he figured he’d be safe, Corinth, and there he raised a son who grew up to have his own son—a boy who was …

Selected for inclusion in Best American Travel Writing 2013 The year I didn’t walk 1,900 miles along the US-Mexico border, I purchased a detail map of the border states and Northern Mexico at the …

First there is Brandon, who everyone calls Squeaky B because of his big body and small voice. Also his sixteen-year-old cousin, Duncan, who opts out of high school and instead sits on the front porch …

Excerpted from Love, Lies and Marriage (FSG), a book in progress When the cops beat on the door I was in a warm bath pecking at my basilic vein with the Global knife my second wife had allowed me …

The First Toilet I grew up in a house with four toilets—two upstairs, two down—but as a young girl, I cleaned only one. My sister and I took turns with the toilet we shared. My mother cleaned the …