Convicted and facing jail time plus a crippling fine in Sweden, the founders of the torrent site The Pirate’s Bay have scattered across the world towards new lives: fatherhood in Laos, a junkie’s life in Phnom Penh, and start-up work in Berlin.
A Kosovar refugee must decide between love and family.
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In “Stowaway,” the new enhanced e-comic from The Atavist, award-winning cartoonist Josh Neufeld and investigative journalist Tori Marlan bring a human trafficking victim’s story to the comics medium.
On the rise of K-pop.
When the best three months of your life are “called three of the uglier months in the recent history of the National Football League.”
Jeanne Marie Laskas is the author of the new book Hidden America and a correspondent for GQ.
"I'm just a writer going into [people's lives], you know? What do you do with that kind of intensity of a relationship when you're job is to invoke it on the page? It's a huge ... not just privilege but responsibility. Because, you know, it's just for a story. And I tell them that: 'I'm asking you trust me, but at the same time don't trust me. I'm kind of like a vulture in this relationship—we're not friends.'"
A tale-of-the-tape breakdown of the 2012 presidential debates.
The dark art of presidential debate prep.
JPMorgan Chase’s $6 billion mistake and the woman who took the fall.
She lives in a world called Calalini with an invisible companion named 400-the-Cat; inside the life of a six-year-old with schizophrenia.
A torrid phone sex affair begins with a random call in a motel and ends a year later with a face-to-face meeting.
Ten years after D.C. area sniper shootings, an interview with Lee Boyd Malvo.
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A profile of the legendary producer at the beginning of his career.
Trying to fix the Atlantic Ocean’s food chain.
How a small-town comptroller became the biggest municipal embezzler in U.S. history.
A conversation with Offerman, who plays Ron Swanson on Parks and Recreation.
On Nate Silver and the messiness of modern political polling.
The people behind “the only American luxury compact sport sedan.”
A mystery writer moves into an apartment where a grisly crime was committed.
A 21-year-old UCLA math major leaves his $9,000-a-month internship to fight with the rebels in Libya.
On being diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
A family’s struggle with mental illness and the criminal justice system.
The legacy of late hip-hop producer Paul C.
A profile of Bidzina Ivanishvili.
Published originally in GQ Russia.
