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Publications

Men's Journal

Arts Movies & TV

Robert Redford's Restless Solitude

“The only problem is he was so successful that Hollywood decided to devour his Xanadu, with premium vodka parties and assistants scouring the Park City Albertsons for Fiji water. ‘It makes me fucking nuts,’ says Redford.”

Stephen Rodrick Men's Journal Nov 2013 25min Permalink

Crime World

Into The Zombie Underworld

Separating truth from lore in Haiti: “The dossier was, at bottom, a murder story, the judge said—but it was a murder story with the great oddity that the victim did not die.”

Mischa Berlinski Men's Journal Sep 2009 Permalink

Arts Music

Sonny Rollins, the Colossus

A profile of the saxophone player at 82.

Mark Jacobson Men's Journal Sep 2013 25min Permalink

Sports

What the Hell Happened to David Duval?

A once-great golfer’s private second act.

Chip Brown Men's Journal Jun 2010 20min Permalink

Sports

Hector Camacho's Vida Macho

In the ring, Hector “Macho” Camacho was a champ. Out of it, he was a coke-fueled, womanizing wild man, until the appetites that consumed him cost him his life.

Paul Solotaroff Men's Journal Apr 2013 20min Permalink

A Pilot's Son, Flying Solo

A son’s memory of the father he lost at 13, excerpted from The Magical Stranger.

Stephen Rodrick Men's Journal May 2013 30min Permalink

World Media

Tom Freston, Runaway Mogul

A Liberian road trip with the creator of MTV, Ralph Reed and a reformed cannibal named General Butt Naked.

Joe Hagan Men's Journal Feb 2013 25min Permalink

Down in the Sago Mine

The story of twelve men trapped in a West Virginia mine, as remembered by the lone survivor.

Dennis Michael Burke Men's Journal Dec 2008 35min Permalink

World

Arab Spring Break

A 21-year-old UCLA math major leaves his $9,000-a-month internship to fight with the rebels in Libya.

Joshua Davis Men's Journal Sep 2012 25min Permalink

World Travel

A Wild Week in Lagos

A trip to a modern African megacity.

Josh Eells Men's Journal May 2012 25min Permalink

What Goes 95 Miles Per Hour for 17 Days Straight Through Mud, Sand, High-Speed Smash-Ups and Marauding Bandits?

Participating in the Dakar Rally.

Jonathan Miles Men's Journal Oct 2003 Permalink

Muscle Beach and the Dawn of Huge

On a young Arnold Schwarzenegger and the body-building culture of Venice Beach in the 1970s.

Paul Solotaroff Men's Journal Feb 2012 25min Permalink

World

Black Ops and Blood Money

When a CIA operation in Pakistan went bad, leaving three men dead, the episode offered a rare glimpse inside a shadowy world of espionage. It also jeopardized America’s most critical outpost in the war against terrorism.

Matthew Teague Men's Journal Jun 2011 25min Permalink

Crime

What I Learned from My Father, The Grifter

“My father didn’t believe in things that were a reminder of the past because he had never had things in the past, and, more important, he had never had a past—not a past that mattered, that should be passed on to me, his son.”

Pat Jordan Men's Journal Dec 2009 20min Permalink

World

The Tiger’s Revenge

In the feral communities of Russia’s Far East, tiger poaching is among the few lucrative pursuits. This is the story of a tiger who fought back.

John Vaillant Men's Journal Sep 2010 25min Permalink

America’s New Cavalry

Some call them “flying lawnmowers.” The entire fleet is decades old. The Pentagon almost junked them in 2008. And yet the tiny Kiowa helicopter has become America’s air weapon of choice in Afghanistan.

Michael Hastings Men's Journal Sep 2010 15min Permalink

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