Authorities said a Nissan Frontier, driven by Amanda Wager, 31, of New Boston, was driving southbound on Route 125 when she crossed into the northbound lane and crashed into a Subaru Crosstrek ...

The journalist David Grann embarks on a multi-leg journey from New York to Florida to Santiago, an annoying combination of planes and customs and cars and ferries en route to Chiloé Island, a ...

T. he only impartial witness was the sun,” begins the latest book by New York Times bestselling author David Grann ’89. Released in April, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder is the ...

There were multiple moments while reading David Grann’s new book, “The Wager,” about an 18th-century shipwreck, when it occurred to me that the kind of nonfiction narratives The New Yorker ...

Survivors of the 18th-century crash of the HMS Wager undertook the perilous task of salvaging what was left of the vessel. Then, mutiny followed.

The stakes were life-and-death--for whomever the court found guilty could hang. The Wager is a grand tale of human behavior at the extremes told by one of our greatest nonfiction writers.