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New York Times Magazine

Business

The Yoga Mogul

John Friend, who founded a new school of yoga, says the practice should be about both exercise and spirituality. Oh, and making money.

Mimi Swartz New York Times Magazine Jul 2010 Permalink

Tech

Until Cryonics Do Us Part

When spouses get upset because their husband or wife wants to be frozen upon death, it’s not because they find the practice sacrilegious. It’s because their partner is consciously considering a future without them.

Kerry Howley New York Times Magazine Jul 2010 10min Permalink

My Long War

A mission in Baghdad to let a photojournalist get a shot of an insurgent corpse ends up getting a Marine killed.

Dexter Filkins New York Times Magazine Aug 2008 25min Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

The Rumpled Anarchy of Bill Murray

A 1988 profile of Bill Murray, then at the peak of his box office power and living in a secluded farmhouse in the Hudson River Valley.

Timothy White New York Times Magazine Nov 1988 Permalink

Science

Tuna's End

Will we deplete the worldwide Bluefin Tuna population beyond repair?

Paul Greenberg New York Times Magazine Jun 2010 Permalink

Tech

What Is I.B.M.’s Watson?

It’s the furthest artificial intelligence has come. And while the supercomputer may get attention for competing on Jeopardy!, Watson could also change everything from customer service to emergency rooms.

Clive Thompson New York Times Magazine Jun 2010 25min Permalink

Can Animals Be Gay?

The science of same-sex relationships in the wild.

Jon Mooallem New York Times Magazine Mar 2010 30min Permalink

The Freegan Establishment

Squatters in Buffalo, NY enjoy a life of “decadent poverty” fixing up palatial mansions.

Jake Halpern New York Times Magazine May 2010 Permalink

Something’s Got to Give

In a windowless room just outside of New York City, overworked air traffic controllers manage the world’s most-trafficked piece of sky—until all those blips on the screen become too much.

Darcy Frey New York Times Magazine Mar 1996 35min Permalink

World

The Integrationist

Job Cohen, the current mayor of Amsterdam, is leading the Dutch race for Prime Minister on a platform of racial integration that could transform the relationship between European politics and immigration.

Russell Shorto New York Times Magazine May 2010 Permalink

Arts Music

M.I.A.’s Agitprop Pop

The contradiction-rich world of Maya Arulpragasam.

Lynn Hirschberg New York Times Magazine May 2010 Permalink

Arts

The Afterlife of Stieg Larsson

After his untimely death at age 50, prior to the publication of any of his novels, Larsson is posthumously at the center of a publishing empire built on the international success of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

Charles McGrath New York Times Magazine May 2010 Permalink

Best Article Arts Media

Death on the CNN Curve

The nation watched live as Robert O’Donnell rescued Baby Jessica from that well in Texas in October, 1987. Then they stopped watching, and Robert O’Donnell was lost without the attention.

Lisa Belkin New York Times Magazine Jul 1995 30min Permalink

World

China’s Arranged Remarriages

Both the Chinese government and private matchmakers are laboring to unite people who lost spouses and children in the earthquake.

Brook Larmer New York Times Magazine May 2010 Permalink

Me and My Girls

An excerpt from Night of the Gun, the memoir by New York Times media critic David Carr about his years as a junkie in late-‘80s Minneapolis.

David Carr New York Times Magazine Jul 2008 25min Permalink

Politics

All the Obama 20-Somethings

Playing beer pong with David Axelrod—and other scenes from the lives of young, high-profile aides in the Obama White House.

Ashley Parker New York Times Magazine Apr 2010 Permalink

Tech

The Data-Driven Life

A growing movement is seeking a deeper knowledge of themselves through tracking sleep, exercise, sex, food, location, productivity. Technology has made it possible—but hasn’t taught us how to interpret the findings.

Gary Wolf New York Times Magazine Apr 2010 Permalink

Media

The Man the White House Wakes Up To

How the daily e-mail from Mike Allen, Politico’s star reporter, has become a morning ritual for Washington’s elite.

Mark Leibovich New York Times Magazine Apr 2010 Permalink

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