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As the destructive Bobcat fire sent plumes of smoke billowing from the Angeles National Forest in 2020, Ryan Huling recalled that at the time news reports claimed the blaze caused “no injuries” and that no homes had been destroyed. That irked the Sierra Madre writer, who watched from his cabin as flames incinerated the home of bears, coyotes, pumas and squirrels. He believes countless critters ...

Rick Atkinson has won Pulitzer Prizes both for his reporting and for his work as a historian. He’s written about five wars, and his books include “The Long Gray Line,” the Liberation Trilogy about the United States’ role in the liberation of Europe during World War II and the first two books of the Revolution Trilogy. No less than Ken Burns said that Atkinson is “among the greatest of all ...

As he worked on an adaptation of some of America’s essential documents over the past few years, cartoonist R. Sikoryak says one element of the ongoing American experiment became clear. “I rewatched the Ken Burns documentaries, and I was like, ‘OK, yeah, none of this was easy,” he says of the country’s early, and ongoing, development. “We can see from the past it was hard.” His new book, ...