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Lawrence Wright’s new novel, “The End of October,” belongs in the rare second category. The book, written months ago, imagines a global pandemic, with millions infected by a virus that began ...
MR. WRIGHT: The WHO is a supplicant. It has no real power, and so it has to have the permission of member states to do any work at all. There were supposed to be--well, there were new rules put ...
In Lawrence Wright’s new thriller, an Arab American F.B.I. agent and an Israeli cop take on an intractable conflict. By Elliot Ackerman For many years, the 39th president generated little ...
Lawrence Wright revisits 2020 in all its pandemic-fueled drama in "The Plague Year."(Alfred A. Knopf / TNS) What hath Lawrence Wright wrought? For decades, the New Yorker staff writer has churned ...
The Looming Tower, Hulu‘s latest original series, is something special. Based on Lawrence Wright‘s Pulitzer-winning book, the gripping drama chronicles the events that led up to September 11 ...
Lawrence Wright’s last novel, The End of October, was an eerily prescient thriller about the world in the grip of a pandemic.Written before anyone had heard of COVID-19, it arrived in time to ...
Lawrence Wright is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and New Yorker staff writer who was one of the first to warn of global pandemics, and now in his latest work of nonfiction, “The Plague Year ...
Lawrence Wright: Well, he’s managed to secure a legacy, and it’s going to be up to the Texans of the future to figure out what that’s going to be, but that’ll be there.
Lawrence Wright Sees Books as ‘Creatures of Their Time’ “I often look back on a book I thought was wonderful and inspiring and found it to be maudlin and flowery or have some other defect of ...