A Toast Story
“More than a café, the shop is a carpentered-together, ingenious mechanism—a specialized tool—designed to keep Carrelli tethered to herself.”
Death Dust
It comes from the soil of the desert Southwest. Inhaled, it can cause incurable, even fatal illness. And, thanks to global warming, valley fever is spreading fast.
A Dangerous Mind
The case of Gilberto Valle, “The Cannibal Cop,” and the line between criminal thoughts and action.
The White Ghetto
A report from Owsley County, Ky., the poorest county in America.
The Training Bras of Literature
Sweet Valley High and the enduring economic power of blond twins.
The Hunt for Mukhtar Ablyazov: Banker, Criminal, Fugitive, Victim?
Searching for the alleged Kazakh Bernie Madoff.
The Downfall of India's Kidney Kingpin
How a self-taught doctor from Delhi cornered the black market in kidneys, building one of the world’s most lucrative organ-trading rings, until it all came crashing down.
The General
An Israeli journalist’s six years of conversation with Ariel Sharon, who died Saturday.
Super Heroine
An interview with Lorde.
The Geel Question
For centuries, a little town in Belgium has been treating the mentally ill. Why are its medieval methods so successful?
The Flying Tomato Would Rather You Not Call Him That Anymore
A profile of Shaun White.
My Mother’s Lover
From her deathbed, the author’s mother revealed a secret she had kept for 60 years: her true love was not his father, but a man named Angus Zahrt. On his ensuing search for the full story.
The Steroid Hunt
What baseball writers did during the steroid era.
The Innocent and the Damned
Allegations of child sexual and Satanic ritual abuse overtake an Austin suburb.
Wilderness Women
The wild competition to be “worshipped” by Alaska’s most eligible bachelors.
America, Your Food Is So Gay
The gay influence on American cooking.
Citizen Ailes
How Roger Ailes raised a ruckus in Putnam County, New York.
An excerpt from The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News–and Divided a Country.
Vanished
Seventeen-year-old Israel Arenas Durán disappeared after being arrested near his home in Nuevo León. He is one of more than 25,000 who have gone missing in Mexico since 2006.
Structure
The art of shaping a magazine article.
Jon Mooallem, a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine, is the author of Wild Ones and American Hippopotamus, the latest story from The Atavist.
"I'm terrible at writing nut graphs. I never know why people should keep reading. That's the menace of my professional existence, trying to figure that out. Because often you have to explain that to an editor before you even start, and I may not even know while I'm writing what the bigger point is."
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How the NSA Almost Killed the Internet
How and why the goverment pulled Silicon Valley into the war on terror.
Dear Charlie
The rocky career and enduring appeal of country legend Charlie Rich, “the missing link between Elvis Presley and Ray Charles.”
Glass, Darkly
An ambivalent look at Google Glass, the “Model T of wearable computing.”
Teresa McGovern: A Death in the Cold
“In all his life, this was the moment of his greatest defeat.” On the death of George McGovern’s daughter on a cold winter night in Madison, Wisconsin.
The World’s Best Bounty Hunter Is 4-Foot-11. Here’s How She Hunts.
The FBI couldn’t find Ryan Eugene Mullen. Neither could a trio of private investigators. Only Michelle Gomez knew where to look.
