Andrew Lawler

A Perfect Frenzy - By Andrew Lawler - Atlantic Monthly Press - 544 pp. - Reviewed by Walter Stahr - February 8, 2026 An imperfect account of revolutionary Virginia. Andrew Lawler’s A Perfect Frenzy: A Royal Governor, His Black Allies, and the Crisis that ... See more

Editor’s note: in the final months of his life, Steve Schwartzberg welcomed the writer Andrew Lawler into a series of intimate conversations that shaped this portrait. Known for his workshops that fearlessly explored the erotic, meditation, and the dying ... See more

Trinity Audioplayer ready... Some 250 years ago on Dec. 9, a column of troops in red coats marched across the Great Bridge in Chesapeake, the bayonets on their muskets gleaming in the dawn light. They expected the untested Americans entrenched on the oppo... See more

Ken Burns’s The American Revolution—a six-part, 12-hour, $30 million film now airing on PBS—is sure to shape the way much of the public views our nation’s founding for years and even decades to come. The task is mammoth: to document the bloody and complic... See more

The alarming news spread along the East Coast. The Royal Navy had turned a defenseless city into a desolate wasteland. Would Charleston, New York or even Philadelphia be next? Washington predicted that “the destruction of Norfolk and threatened devastatio... See more