Longform

Talese never got an interview with Ol’ Blue Eyes, but, as he told his editor, after three months of reporting he may have gotten something more elusive: “the truth about the man.”

Searching for the hermetic media giant.

Four years after a disastrous MTV performance had led him to avoid the public, Rose was back on stage—Asian guru and secret oxygen chamber in tow.

A pilgrimage to J.D. Salinger’s New Hampshire home.

Searching for Kirk Johnson, whose ass was one of the Internet’s earliest memes.