You can’t tell the players without a scorecard.

Elmer Wayne Henley is neither safe nor sorry.

The proof of your imagination is in the paper.

Splendor in the suburbs.

A strip-mining company made her an offer she couldn’t refuse.

People bring their gangly quarter horse colts to Bubba Werner to transform into winners. Now and again, he does.

Spiritual desolation in Crawford’s The Backslider; spiritual warfare in Naipaul’s Guerrillas.

Some cheap but gourmet dishes you can make at home on the range.

Who is the Taxi Driver and why is he doing those terrible things?

The worst things in life are free; venereal disease, for instance.

Something you can’t see, hear, smell, taste, or touch could turn you a tidy profit—if you play your cards right.

In which our author discovers that paternity suits him.

The natural gas deregulation bill almost made it through the labyrinth of Congress, but not exactly in the way they tell it in the civics books.

Accidentally on purpose.

Water, water, everywhere.