Charles Mcelwee

An unrelenting winter and circumstance dictated a most uncustomary form of interview with Gay Talese: a phone call. Another ice storm in New York kept Talese in his Upper East Side townhouse, where he first occupied a bachelor pad as a New York Times repo... See more

Trump faces looming MAGA revolt over data centres Hazleton, Pennsylvania, was once the Power City: the third US city electrified by Thomas Edison, home to the world’s first coal-fired electricity plant, and the source of an electric third rail that inspir... See more

Is Pennsylvania slipping out of Trump’s grasp? In Rabbit, Run, John Updike describes Brewer — the fictional stand-in for Reading, Pennsylvania — as “a red city, where they paint wood, tin, even red bricks red, an orange-rose flowerpot red that is unlike t... See more

Dick Cheney created America’s new populist era It’s hard to imagine American political life without Dick Cheney, who died yesterday at the age of 84. In his posthumous 2014 novel The Last Magazine, the journalist Michael Hastings describes MSNBC’s airing ... See more

Will Hispanics turn New Jersey red? In Philip Roth’s 1959 autobiographical novella, Goodbye, Columbus, Neil Klugman drives out of northern New Jersey’s Newark, the state’s largest city, and cruises toward suburbia — its wealth, growth, and contentment int... See more