Deal Me Out
Andrew Ross Sorkin’s intimate coverage of Wall Street.
Neo-Nazi Mole
When its informant’s cover was blown, German intelligence destroyed his files. Did his handlers fail to pick up a violent cell that would eventually murder nine immigrants and a cop in order to preserve their asset?
The Entrapment of Jesse Snodgrass
An undercover cop targets an autistic teen as a drug dealer.
Meet The Most Marketed 12-Year-Old Basketball Player In The World
How good is Julian Newman, really?
The Murders Before the Marathon
A triple homicide, the alleged involvement of a Boston Marathon bombing suspect, and those caught up in the FBI’s ongoing investigation.
Kevin Roose, a writer at New York, has contributed to The New York Times, GQ and Esquire. His latest book is Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street's Post-Crash Recruits.
"Google will give you away. I feel like one undercover book is all you get these days before the jig is up. ... Unless, like Barbara Ehrenreich, you legally change your name. I was not quite prepared to go that far."
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The Plot From Solitary
How four prisoners in solitary confinement launched the largest hunger strike in American history.
All About Eve—and Then Some
A profile of Eve Babitz – muse, writer, LA party girl.
Fascism, Russia, and Ukraine
On the dueling propagandists of Kiev and Moscow.
American Aqueduct: The Great California Water Saga
“Too much is being asked of the Delta.”
The Most Thrilling Boring Game In The Universe
Trying to understand the appeal of Eve Online.
How Much My Novel Cost Me
An essay on how to turn a sizable book advance into a sizable debt.
Comedy First
A profile of Harold Ramis, director of Groundhog Day, who died today.
Ghosting
The complicated process of ghostwriting Julian Assange’s autobiography.
On Way to Disaster, a Life of Wrong Turns
What happened before a woman killed two cyclists.
A Star in a Bottle
An audacious plan to create a new energy source could save the planet from catastrophe. But time is running out.
What Really Happened to Michael Rockefeller
More than 50 years after Nelson Rockefeller's son went missing following a boat accident in New Guinea, the true story emerges. He made it to shore, but didn't make it much farther.
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Playboy Interview: Gawker's Nick Denton
PLAYBOY: Is it possible you set a lower value on privacy than most people do?
DENTON: I don't think people give a fuck, actually.
The Plot to Kill Ed Koch
The congressman (and future Mayor of New York) vs. the South American assassin.
Longform Fiction Pick of the Week: "Between Here and the Yellow Sea"
A former student and high school coach travel to California to kidnap the coach’s daughter, an adult film actress.
Lockerbie: A Story Beyond Tragedy, a Story of Curling and Olympic Pride
How a town of 4,000, defined by aviation catastrophe, produced three Olympic medallists.
The Oracle of Ice Hockey
On goalies, and in particular, really good Finnish ones.
The Ivory Highway
Inside the lucrative — and illegal — business of elephant tusk trafficking.
A Journey to the Center of the World
Why 85-year-old Jacques-André Istel established a town (population: 2) on 2,600 acres in the middle of the Arizona desert (but not before becoming a sky diving legend, among other things).
Broken Stride
The death of a runner and the “ongoing culture war between fitness enthusiasts and automobiles.”
