Alex Beam
Recent articles by Alex Beam
Nova Scotia, Mon Amour
The province's quirks and inaccessibility are its very charms.
The Greatest Stories Never Told
Some of the most delicious unpublished journalism gets passed around like a secret handshake.
Books About Schnooks
They are the very models of the modern chief executive.
Greed On Trial
The question before the jurors was not whether legal fees amounting to $7,700 an hour were "unreasonable." It was whether the lawyer-plaintiffs should get $1.3 billion more.
The Mad Poets Society
McLean Hospital, in Massachusetts, was for years America's most literary mental institution, a place that Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, and Anne Sexton knew well.