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Pulitzer-winning journalist and author Tony Horwitz dies at 60

Pulitzer-winning journalist and author Tony Horwitz dies at 60

The Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and best-selling author known for embedding himself in the worlds he wrote about died on Monday in Washington.

  • by Sam Roberts

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The scourge of Muphry's Law
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Thomas Harris returns after 13 years, but no sign of Hannibal Lecter
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Frans de Waal and Elli H. Radinger show that animals have inner lives just like us.

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