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‘… the more I learned about fishing, the less clarity there seemed.’

‘Not everything is black and white, nor do the words legal and illegal do justice to these issues.’

While he ‘wrote through Latino eyes, the core themes he explored in his columns—the quest for truth and justice—are universal.’

Here are some excerpts from columns that appear in the book, “Frank del Olmo: Commentaries on His Times:”“A Dissenting Vote on the Endorsement of Pete Wilson,” October 31, 1994… Unfortunately,…

A series of news reports found city agencies ignoring their own regulations and illegally polluting water in Dallas.

Areas on the lakebed that generate dust must be controlled with one of three approved dust-control measures: flooding with shallow sheets of water, establishing native salt-tolerant vegetation, or covering the…

Sebastião Salgado’s photographs ‘represent everything that is meaningful, controversial and difficult about “concerned photography.”’

‘… filmmakers have become a source of alternative explanations for the war in Iraq and the news coverage of it, as well as critics of the administration’s policies.’

‘The imperatives of narrative nonfi ction carried me like a current to the book’s last words.’

‘Like all the great narrative journalists, [Mark] Bowden must be a relentless asker of questions, a painstaking gatherer of minute detail.’