Profiles

• Book review of SONG NOIR: Tom Waits and the Spirit of Los Angeles, by Alex Harvey
• The Graphic Novelist Who Drew an Undercover Operation Against Environmental Crime: Ava Salzman shows the genre’s strength in conveying a complex story. Washington Post
• The Man Who Remembers the Future: Bill Suitor took off when the futuristic jetpack did not. Washington Post
• The Novelist Who Recreated 1970s DC: For her novel, Creatures of Passage, Morowa Yejidé painstakingly built a portrait of a vanished city’s overlooked Black community. Washington Post
• A Veteran Considers: Frank DiCara recalls his path back from the Pacific after World War II and what a chance encounter means. Baltimore Sun
• Ahmet Ertegun’s Coming of Age in Music: The Washington Post
• The Wild Man at the Center of the World: Something happened when the poet Joaquin Miller built a cabin in the heart of the nation’s capital. Washington Post
• Albert Murray’s Magical Youth: A conversation with the writer at home in Harlem. Southern Cultures
• Percy Julian, Against the Odds: Humanities magazine
• Monk on a Mission: An unorthodox Buddhist monk on the border with Burma shows abandoned children the power of kick-boxing and their own choices. Tricycle.