Escape from Cuba
Yasiel Puig’s journey to the Dodgers.
For Richard Family, Loss and Love
A family’s story, one year after the Boston Marathon bombing.
In Deep
The dark and dangerous world of extreme cavers.
The Trouble With Shaken Baby Syndrome
A diagnosis in question.
A Broken Place: The Spectacular Failure of the Startup That Was Going to Change the World
Shai Agassi had nearly $1 billion in funding and a dream to replace gas guzzlers with electric cars. All he was missing was a plan.
The Ballad of Geeshie and Elvie
On the trail of the phantom women who changed American music and vanished without a trace.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Treading Water"
A fragile relationship teeters during a family vacation.
Meet The Bag Man
How to buy college football players, in the words of a man who delivers the money.
‘An Addict With Friends’
Robert Aaron was a veteran horn player who sold bags of heroin to friends to support his own habit. Then his friend Philip Seymour Hoffman overdosed.
Naked and Famous
A profile of photographer Ryan McGinley.
The Truth of El Mozote
The story of a massacre in El Salvador.
Looking For Tom Lehrer, Comedy's Mysterious Genius
“In the recent history of American music, there’s no figure parallel to Lehrer in his effortless ascent to fame, his trajectory into the heart of the culture — and then his quiet, amiable, inexplicable departure.”
An Open Letter to My Sister, Miss Angela Davis
“Since we live in an age in which silence is not only criminal but suicidal, I have been making as much noise as I can…”
65
An ode to aging.
What's Wrong With Sentimentality?
Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams, on crying in movie theaters, “attention whores” and David Foster Wallace.
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.”
Down and Out at the Hotel Providence
Scenes from a Bowery flophouse.
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"This Is Not a Barbie Doll. This Is an Actual Human Being."
A profile of Valeria Lukyanova, otherwise known as the “Human Barbie.”
What Happened To Jai Alai?
Jai Alai once packed Florida’s frontons with gamblers and glamor. Today, America is down to a single top-level pro who plays under the name Tevin in honor of Tevin Campbell.
Burning Out
The last days of Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Birdie Africa: The Lost Boy
What happened to the only child who survived the 1985 MOVE bombing.
Karl Ove Knausgaard is Your Favorite Author's Favorite Author
The downside of opening up.
Over Easy
“That educated women’s eggs are in demand is one thing, that they are willing to provide them is another.”
