The Blind Faith of the One-Eyed Matador
A bullfighter’s comeback after a brutal goring.
Who Do You Want Elisabeth Moss to Be?
A profile of the Handmaid’s Tale star.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Beneath the Atlas"
A story of maps, travels, and (un)couplings.
The Addicts Next Door
West Virginia has the highest overdose death rate in the country. Locals are fighting to save their neighbors—and their towns—from destruction.
Michael Foster Is Defiant
The activist who turned off the Keystone pipeline last fall is facing years in prison - and not backing down.
Erin Lee Carr is a documentary filmmaker and writer. Her new film is Mommy Dead and Dearest.
“I feel like I’ve always had the story down—that’s not been really difficult for me. So the difficult thing, I think, for me, has always been access. Can I get the access? Can I withstand the pressure? You know, there’s been so many times where I wasn’t being paid to do the job, and I had to wait on the access. And it’s not for the faint of heart. You know, I could have spent a year and a half of my life doing [Mommy Dead and Dearest] and I could’ve not gotten the access to Gypsy, and it kind of would’ve been a wash.”
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Welcome to the Green Machine
“My son was jobless, directionless, and apartmentless. So when he decided to join the Army, we were just glad he was out of the house. What we didn’t know was just how much the military would change him—and us.”
The Horrors of Getting Hit by a Pitch
What it feels like to get hit by a major league fastball.
The 2017 Livingston Award Winners
The Livingston Awards, announced Tuesday, honor the year’s best work by journalists under the age of 35.
America’s Hidden H.I.V. Epidemic
Why do America’s black gay and bisexual men have a higher H.I.V. rate than any country in the world?
Bob Dylan's Nobel Lecture
“When I first received this Nobel Prize for Literature, I got to wondering exactly how my songs related to literature. I wanted to reflect on it and see where the connection was. I’m going to try to articulate that to you. And most likely it will go in a roundabout way, but I hope what I say will be worthwhile and purposeful.”
Is There a Neo-Nazi Storm Brewing in Trump Country?
Two days with a group of white nationalists in Kentucky.
Most People Will Never Understand My Eating Disorder
Coming to terms with exercise bulimia.
The Greatest, At Rest
The planning of Muhammad Ali’s funeral.
The Master of the Murder Castle
On H.H. Holmes “an old hand at corpse manipulation and insurance fraud,” who built a house of death in 1890s Chicago.
The ISIS Killers
The elite Iraqi “Golden Division” was trained by the US to hunt terrorists. But now they’re locked in a brutal street battle for control of Mosul.
The Other Shooter
The afterlife of 486 frames of Kodachrome II 8mm film shot by Dallas clothing manufacturer Abraham Zapruder.
Losing Gloria
After their mother was deported to Mexico, the Marin siblings faced an impossible choice: Stay or go.
The Ghost of Capablanca
Chess in Cuba.
Talk Like An Egyptian
Learning Arabic in Cairo after the Arab Spring.
Marvin Gaye's Abiding Unrest
Marvin Gaye at the beginning and at the end.
Hell Is Empty and All the Hedge Fund Managers Are at the Bellagio
A dispatch from Anthony Scaramucci’s SALT Conference.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Restoration Ecology"
Science work, youth, and middle aged troubles.
The Holdup
A mobster, a family and the crime that won’t let them go.
Vietnam Story
The word was the Ia Drang would be a walk. The word was wrong. (Winner of the 1991 National Magazine Award and the basis for the We Were Soliders.)
