“Macau is risky, it seems, for everyone who comes in contact with the place.”

Evan Osnos on the many (law)suits of Sheldon Adelson: http://nyr.kr/14tR8Ch

Photograph by Jerome Favre/Bloomberg/Getty.

Katia Bachko on crime novelist Patricia Cornwell’s recent legal battle: http://nyr.kr/YpsTBf

“Regardless of how it turns out, Cornwell will likely turn the proceedings into fodder for her next best-seller, as she does with many of her encounters. ‘It all gets infused in my writing,’ she told me.”

Read Bachko’s Talk story about Patricia Cornwell here.

In light of the recently filed lawsuit against Lance Armstrong and his publishers, alleging that readers purchased the book “based upon the false belief that they were true and honest works of fiction,” Ian Crouch considers why we read memoirs, and what kind of redress disenchanted or disappointed readers should expect: http://nyr.kr/UJSrvD

Photograph by Beatrice de Gea/The New York Times/Redux.

In the Jan. 28, 2013 issue, Paige Williams looks at the black market for fossils, and talks exclusively to Eric and Amanda Prokopi, whose curious trade in Mongolian dinosaur fossils has landed them at the center of an extraordinary legal case:

United States of America v. One Tyrannosaurus Bataar Skeleton went to court in early September, in lower Manhattan, with U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel presiding. Castel has adjudicated cases involving accused mobsters (John Gotti, Jr.) and cases involving rappers (Kanye West) but never one with a party from the late Cretaceous. “I stand to be educated,” he said. “I’m not going to claim that I have dinosaur arrests presented to me with any frequency…”

Continue reading: http://nyr.kr/UBWZ5T