An oral history of the Playboy Clubs.
Monday, April 25
Sunday, April 24
The birth of the Beastie Boys—an oral history on the 25th anniversary of Licensed to Ill.
For 18 months, Coatesville, Penn., was besieged with an improbable number of arsons. But who started the fires – and why?
Saturday, April 23
An investigation into rising crime rates in small American cities. Is a lauded antipoverty program to blame?
Friday, April 22
NYT journalist David Rohde’s alternately terrifying and absurd first person account of his kidnapping en route to an interview in Southern Afghanistan and the subsequent seven months he, along with his translator and driver, spent in captivity in the tribal areas of Pakistan.
How crooked officials pulled off a massive scam, spent millions on Dubai real estate, and killed the author’s law partner when he tried to expose them.
Early last year, 10 churches were torched in East Texas. The culprits? Two Baptist teens having a crisis of faith.
Thursday, April 21
The 20 soldiers in Second Platoon try in vain to hold down a strategic outpost in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley, “among the deadliest pieces of terrain in the world for U.S. forces.”
On Sebastian Junger’s War and the documentary Restrepo by Tim Hetherington, who was killed in Libya yesterday.
