Non-fiction
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| The Angel of Western New York It's Monday night, so there are only a handful of patrons in the bar, playing pool or watching the All Star game. Of the trinity of great American cultural inventions—baseball, Mormonism and jazz—only jazz is missing. Instead, someone is playing every Bob Seger song on the juke box. > Download (pdf) | |
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| The Living Universe: Why is the Universe the Way it is? As far as we know, life exists on only one planet in the entire Universe. While we might think of that planet as Spaceship Earth, isolated from the cosmos through which it travels, life on our world is intimately connected to the Universe beyond. > Download (pdf) | |
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| The Queen of Santa Cruz There is no place on Earth like Galapagos, where fish fly through the air and lizards crawl about underwater. It is unique because there is no other geographical location on the planet that is synonymous with an idea as significant as Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution through natural selection. > Download (pdf) | |
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| Miss Chile The walls of the security station are bare except for two pictures. One, a faded photograph of General Pinochet—or Pinocchio as Chileans have begun calling him in these the last months of his dictatorship. The other, a large photograph of Miss Chile who, just this week, was named Miss Universe. She is beautiful. > Download (pdf) | |