News Summary

• Olivia Nuzzi’s new book, American Canto, has leaned heavily into the elementary turbulence of California.
• She immolated her career as a political writer at New York magazine by becoming romantically entangled with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “I do not wish to be understood,” she writes in the book, “which no one seems to understand.” This is a very good reason not to write and publish a memoir, writes Julian Zelizer.