Jahar's World
The multiple lives of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Fu Fighters
Whitewater rafting down a Chilean river with a movie star and the Kennedys.
Adventures of a Man of Science
On literary manifestos, long-distance reading, and the egg of death.
Edith Zimmerman is the founding editor of The Hairpin and a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine.
"I never wrote anything myself or ran anything from other people that was needlessly negative. It wasn't some false grin plastered all over it — we addressed dark things too, and poked fun at things. But I didn't want there to ever be a tone of yeah, let's really just deflate this. Because ultimately you're just stabbing at a ghost among friends. And then at the end you've all just fallen on the floor and the ghost is gone. You're not really doing anything constructive."
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Marooned at the End of the World
In 1913, a ship carrying 31 explorers got stuck in the Arctic ice, hundreds of miles from civilization. The leader left to carry on the expedition. Others stuck with the boat. Help wouldn’t come for a year.
The Ghosts of Emmett Till
Jurors from the Emmett Till trial revisit the case 50 years later.
The Percentages: A Biography of Class
A personal history of class in America.
Jack Handey Is the Envy of Every Comedy Writer in America
A profile of the writer behind “Deep Thoughts” on Saturday Night Live.
SF Plane Crash: Responders Turned Chaos Into Hope
With the first on the scene of the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 disaster.
Better Living Through Curiosity
A profile of Amar Bose, founder of the Bose Corporation.
The Speaker Is Mute But Not Unintelligible
The durable ineffectiveness of John Boehner.
The Pixar Theory
Making the case that all Pixar movies exist on a cohesive timeline in the same universe dominated by a central theme: the battle between animals, humans and machines.
Best Article Crime Science World
Operation Easter
The hunt for a secretive network of British men obsessed with accumulating and cataloguing the eggs of rare birds.
Flesh & Blood
The crimes of former NFL star Rae Carruth.
Previously: “The Boy They Couldn’t Kill” (Thomas Lake • Sports Illustrated)
The American Cloud
The “naked technological realities” of America’s heartland and how they power a “cosy coastal world of pretend farmers’ markets and happy cows.”
The Murders of Gonzago
On the film The Act of Killing, in which the actual perpetrators of a 1966-1966 Indonesian genocide recreate their own actions for the camera, and what it can tell us about our memories of the Vietnam War.
In Iraq, the Bomb-Detecting Device That Didn't Work, Except to Make Money
How a con man named James McCormick sold $38 million worth of phony bomb-detection devices to Iraqi authorities.
Death in the Desert
In early 2012, the bones of a woman and young boy were found near the Arizona-Mexico border. The author investigates who they were and how they died.
Remade in Taiwan
When Manny Ramirez played half a season for the E-DA Rhinos.
Heaven Can't Wait
Attending the Afterlife Awareness Conference.
Alone With the Strangler
Encounters with Albert DeSalvo, the self-confessed Boston Strangler.
At Sears, Eddie Lampert's Warring Divisions Model Adds to the Troubles
The story of a risky management style gone bust.
Special Deal
The shadowy cartel of doctors that control U.S. healthcare.
Shooting the Messengers
Is being a war correspondent worth the risk?
Wanted: Macho Men with Mustaches
On the origins of The Village People.
