Nicholas Lemann

Jan 21, 2013 — By Nicholas Lemann

How the world’s largest corporation decides who will make it too the top—and who won’t.

Jan 20, 2013 — By Nicholas Lemann

With just a nip of nuoc mam you’ll be on your way to the cooking frontier of Vietnamese food.

Jan 20, 2013 — By Nicholas Lemann

With just a nip of nuoc mam you’ll be on your way to the cooking frontier of Vietnamese food.

Feb 1, 1993 — By Nicholas Lemann

The Standard Oil Collection captured details of everyday life in the forties and, in 1981, helped us to understand modern Texas.

Mar 1, 1988 — By Nicholas Lemann

For all his integrity and noble intention, George Bush has yet to prove he’s got the agenda of a true statesman.

Dec 1, 1985 — By Nicholas Lemann

One man’s answer to nouvelle cuisine.

Jun 30, 1985 — By Nicholas Lemann

That may sound easy, but the combined constraints of the marketplace and the refrigerator’s contents make it a neat trick to put a satisfying meal on the table.

Jul 31, 1984 — By Nicholas Lemann

Turn off the TV. Go fishing. Here’s the inside story of what will happen at the convention, complete with Nancy Reagan’s tacky visit to a bowling alley.

Mar 1, 1984 — By Joseph Nocera and Nicholas Lemann

Robert Sherrill’s Oil Follies of 1979-1980 leaves no detail unremarked in its effort to pin the blame on Big Oil; in Ronnie Dugger’s On Reagan the author is as unbending an ideologue as his subject is.

Sep 30, 1983 — By Nicholas Lemann

It’s a bank-eat-bank world out there.

Mar 1, 1983 — By Nicholas Lemann

Shoot enough portraits of Texans, and you’ll have made a portrait of Texas.

Jan 1, 1983 — By Nicholas Lemann

Negative utopias.

Aug 31, 1982 — By Nicholas Lemann

Things are looking good for the Sunbelt, says political prognosticator Kevin P. Phillips. Unfortunately, things are looking bad for America.

Jul 31, 1982 — By Nicholas Lemann

It symbolizes either the American dream or the American nightmare—one or the other of which is enveloping Texas.

Apr 1, 1982 — By Nicholas Lemann

Welcome to Houston, the cutting edge of architecture. The local boys are turning a gentlemen’s profession into a business, the stylish out-of-towners are creating a new aesthetic, and neither group is filled with admiration for the other.

Feb 1, 1982 — By Nicholas Lemann

This clunky piece of machinery made Howard Hughes very rich. It is the first in our series of things that every Texan should know.

Dec 1, 1981 — By Nicholas Lemann

In a faraway archive we found the best photographs of Texas ever taken, never befor published in a large group. Together, they show every part of the state as it entered the modern age. And each one has a story behind it.

Aug 31, 1981 — By Nicholas Lemann

Thousands of people from the North, broke and out of work, are streaming into the state. This is the true story of two of them who abandoned Detroit for Houston, learned about cockroaches, tacos, and freeways, and finally discovered happiness in broken air conditioners.

Jul 31, 1981 — By Nicholas Lemann

Texas Cities are full of people who grew up in the country - and want everybody they meet to know it.

Jan 1, 1980 — By Nicholas Lemann

Don’t despair, learn to Think Positive! Success and happiness are only a seminar, a cassette library, and several hundred dollars away!

Nov 1, 1979 — By Gregory Curtis and Nicholas Lemann

A legendary event in the legendary lives of a legendary Texas family.

Sep 30, 1979 — By Nicholas Lemann

What’s what and who’s who in Texas real estate.

Sep 30, 1979 — By Nicholas Lemann

He believed in the American dream and it paid off.

Sep 30, 1979 — By Stephen Harrigan and Nicholas Lemann

In his new book Tom Wolfe poses this question: were the Mercury astronauts men or monkeys? Thomas Thompson changes his journalistic setting from Houston to the far East to produce a book about an astonishing criminal.

Aug 31, 1979 — By Nicholas Lemann

Everyone in Austin loves sparkling Barton Creek—especially the developers.

Apr 1, 1979 — By Nicholas Lemann

At the Texas Medical Center the best hospitals, doctors, researchers, and medical technology anywhere in the world have combined to transform doctors from healers into superstars.

Apr 1, 1979 — By Nicholas Lemann

The medical miasma.

Apr 1, 1979 — By Nicholas Lemann

Doctors are busy every minute. But what exactly are they up to?

Dec 1, 1978 — By Nicholas Lemann

The Rockefellers are coming, and J.C. Lewis thinks they’re after the American farmer.

Dec 1, 1978 — By Nicholas Lemann

How the world’s largest corporation decides who will make it too the top—and who won’t.

Aug 31, 1978 — By Nicholas Lemann

Bobby Baker tells all and then some.