After circulating Lolita in secret amongst a small circle of New Yorker editors and publishers, Vladamir Nabokov finally placed it at Olympia Press. Three weeks before publication, a slumping and broke Dorothy Parker appeared in The New Yorker with a story entitled “Lolita” about a teenage bride, her jealous mother, and a much older man.
How much time does Manny Pacquiao have left?
Investigating an astrophysicist’s sudden death at an isolated resesarch base in Antarctica.
Due to global warming, this island nation may cease to exist in 20 years.
On using data to hire and fire.
Manson at 79: in poor health and walking with a cane, obsessed with Vincent Bugliosi, willing to talk at length with a reporter for the first time in years, and visited every weekend by a 25-year-old woman he calls Star.
After 85 years, antibiotics are growing impotent. So what will medicine, agriculture and everyday life look like if we lose these drugs entirely?
A technical explanation of the real program to sabotage Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Rachel Aviv is a staff writer at The New Yorker.
"If I'm writing about the criminal justice system, I wish I were a lawyer. If I'm writing about psychiatry, I wish I were a psychiatrist. I have often filled out half my application to get a Ph.D in clinical psychology. That is one area where I am constantly on the verge of jumping the fence. But even when I wrote about religion, I thought I wanted to be a priest."
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How a comedy writer making $300,000 a year ended up homeless.
How our memories become contaminated by inaccuracies.
On the mountain lions of Los Angeles.
The inside story of Bob Dylan’s Blood On The Tracks.
A tour of our greatest conspiracy theories.
The long road to Google’s self-driving car.
On the assassination of a half-Palestinian, half-Jewish cultural revolutionary.
INTERVIEWER: I imagine that people try to set you up as some sort of guru, whether political or metaphysical.
LESSING: I think people are always looking for gurus. It’s the easiest thing in the world to become a guru. It’s quite terrifying.
A writer embarks on a seven-year trek from Africa to Tierra Del Fuego.
A recent history of ‘bupe’ Suboxone film, which is described as a miracle cure for opiate addiction but flows freely from for-profit clinics to dealers and inmates, sometimes melted into the pages of smuggled Bibles.
In 1985, a lost 22-year-old wrote a letter to a Manson girl-turned-model prisoner, asking for advice on conquering his demons. Then they fell in love.
“And the Holocaust trumps art every time.”
The $200 billion industry behind the Snuggie.
The gospel according to nine-year-olds; a missionary group that won the right to evangelize in schools and how children process their message.
A pair of undercover journalists, a boatload of refugees, 200 miles of ocean and a journey that has claimed more than a thousand lives.
On art and dead bodies.
