Down and Out in a Repurposed Troop Carrier
Writing a “stunt memoir” in the waterpark capital of the world.
Did Barack Obama Save Ohio?
The Buckeye State’s fortunes and the fight for credit.
Bill Clinton: Who Is This Guy?
The governor of Arkansas, profiled.
Can You Die From A Nightmare?
“It was creepy to wake up violently in the middle of the night. It was creepier when no one could tell me why it was happening.”
Paul Ford is a writer and programmer.
"You don't really read a newspaper to preserve journalism, or save great journalism, or to keep the newspaper going. You read it because it gives you a sense of power or control over the environment that you're in, and actually sort of helps you define what your personal territory is, and what the things are that matter for you. As long as products serve that need—as long as books allow you to explore spaces that it's otherwise really hard for you to explore and so on—I think people will continue to read them."
Rotary Dial
An essay about phone dials and a response to the end of blogging.
Raging Bulls
How Wall Street got addicted to trading at the speed of light.
Interview: Katherine Boo
On the craft of reporting poverty.
My Life with Lance Armstrong
A profile of the cyclist by his former mechanic and assistant.
Confessions of a Black Mr. Mom
An essay on African-American fatherhood.
Searching For the Godmother of Crime
A profile of Griselda Blanco, aka the “Black Widow,” who pioneered the cocaine trade in New York and Miami.
Mizoram’s Wild Flower
In 1974, a pair of four-year-old cousins wandered into the jungle near India’s border with Myanmar. The boy was found five days later, temporarily incapable of speech. The girl was gone. For decades, stories echoed through villages of a “wild-looking woman,” sometimes striding beside a tiger. Thirty-eight years later, she returned.
The Day the Sea Came
The story of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
Joe Biden Isn't Finished
A profile of the vice president.
Beyond the Matrix
A profile of The Wachowskis.
"You Have to Talk About Salt"
An interview with Pulitzer-winning food critic Jonathan Gold.
Days of Reckoning
On Yemen’s uncertain future.
First Love
Memories of a college courtship.
In Hollywood
On Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, screenwriters.
Shattered Genius
The author attempts to interview Grigori Perelman, a reclusive mathematical genius.
The Gangster Princess of Beverly Hills
The rise and fall of Lisette Lee, the self-proclaimed “Korean Paris Hilton,” who was busted for drug trafficking.
Out of the West
The movies of Clint Eastwood.
In Search of the Living, Purring, Singing Heart of the Online Cat-Industrial Complex
Exploring the relationship between cats and the Internet in Japan.
17 Days in November
Two brothers dreamed of baseball stardom. One would end up killing the other.
The Legendary Paul Ryan
An appraisal of the Wisconsin congressman’s “green-eyeshade fiscal conservatism.”
