Fidel’s Heir
A profile of Hugo Chávez.
When the Jihad Came to Mali
A history of how Tuareg separatists, jihadists seeking a “desert caliphate,” cigarette smugglers, and narcotraffickers have turned Northern Mali into “the globe’s most significant terrorist threat.”
Chasing the Higgs
The people behind the search for the “God particle.”
The Deluge
The impact of the oil and gas booms taking place all over the world, and our future on fossil fuels.
The True-Life Horror that Inspired Moby-Dick
The story of a whale attack.
Up All Night
The science of sleeplessness.
Back on the Trail
A profile of former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford, who is running for office four years after his affair with an Argentine journalist became national news.
The Crime of His Childhood
Searching for answers 40 years after a Brooklyn man threw acid in the face of his 4-year-old neighbor.
The All-Stars of David
On the Israeli national baseball team.
The Rubber Room
The battle over what to do with New York City’s worst teachers.
How to Spend 47 Hours on a Train and Not Go Crazy
A journey on the Sunset Limited, which ferries people from Louisiana to California.
Here's Jimmy Kimmel
A profile of the late-night host.
A New Prophet Rises from the Ashes of Waco
The Branch Davidians today, 20 years after the deadly standoff.
Debbie Heald Set an Important Record
A 16-year-old runner, her coach and the lasting memory of an improbable race.
Brooklyn: The Sane Alternative
How the borough bounced back.
Tom Freston, Runaway Mogul
A Liberian road trip with the creator of MTV, Ralph Reed and a reformed cannibal named General Butt Naked.
The Rape of Petty Officer Blumer
“It seemed like everyone gets raped and assaulted and no one does anything about it; it’s like a big rape cult.”
The Trials of Nadia Naffe
Naffe, a young Republican, entered the belly of the political beast – and was nearly eaten.
James ‘Whitey’ Bulger & Catherine Greig’s Story
From Southie to Santa Monica, a gangster romance on the run.
A Dazzling Priest’s Lurid Fall, to Drug Case Suspect
On the Connecticut priest who dealt methamphetamine from his church and ran a sex ring from his apartment.
Keith Gessen is the founding editor of n+1 and a contributor to The New Yorker.
"The founding editors are slowing down. We're not mad at anyone anymore. We think everything is great. ... But amazingly at n+1, we've had this younger generation of angry young women kind of rise up. Something has created space for young editors to come in and be really angry ... But that's holy, that's the thing that makes great writing: being angry."
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Money
The economics of being a young writer.
African Dreamer
The diarist and photographer Peter Beard, known both for his series documenting a mass elephant starvation and for discovering the supermodel Iman on a Nairobi street, reflects on his life of “drugs, debt, and beautiful women” while recovering from being trampled by an elephant.
Journalistic Standards in Reporting of the Te'o Hoax: Q&A with Deadspin's Tommy Craggs
A lesson in ethics.
The Ghost Writes Back
Confessions of a Sweet Valley High ghostwriter.
