“Cat Person” and Me
A viral short story and the real person it mysteriously drew on.
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I Was 12 When We Met
Blake Bailey was my favorite teacher. Years later, he forced himself on me. Why did I seek his approval for so long?
The Lousy Tippers of the Trump Administration
They were exhausting, impossible, stingy, and cruel, just like at their day jobs.
How the School Reopening Debate Is Tearing One of America’s Most Elite Suburbs Apart
In a district where parents are epidemiologists and health policy experts, the meltdown happened one Zoom meeting at a time
"Everything Was Completely Destroyed"
What it was like to be a rank-and-file Sony employee after the hack.
How Not to Deal With Murder in Space
A bizarre 1970 Arctic killing over a jug of raisin wine shows that we need to think about crime outside our atmosphere now.
The Store That Called the Cops on George Floyd
A teenage clerk dialed 911. How should the brothers who own CUP Foods pay for what happened next?
Fire in the Hole!
Machine guns, cannons and drones in the Arizona desert.
The Class of RBG
The remarkable stories of the nine other women in the Harvard Law class of ‘59.
An Uprising Comes From the Viral Underclass
And the Black Lives Matter movement could be the vaccine the country needs
“It Was Gone Overnight”
One restaurant’s struggle to weather the pandemic.
The Bible That Oozed Oil
A small Georgia town, a prophecy about Donald Trump, and the story of how a miracle fell apart.
"You Guys Are Scaring Me"
A woman told police she was raped by three New York Mets. They were never charged.
Is America’s Favorite Playwright Too Much for New York?
Lauren Gunderson on the eve of her New York premiere.
How Herpes Became a Sexual Boogeyman
The origins of a misplaced panic.
Piper Perabo: Resistance Celebrity
How an actor becomes a Trump-era activist.
Sixteen and Evangelical
How can people who once moved as one ultra-religious organism become such dramatically different adults?
Beta Blockers Were a Miracle Cure for My Stage Fright
Online startups can send you pills to cure anxiety. But is it safe to buy them?
Oh, No, Not Knotweed!
How the most expensive and unstoppable invasive plant crisis inspires madness and panic.
Joe Rogan's Galaxy Brain
How the former Fear Factor host’s podcast became an essential platform for “freethinkers” who hate the left.
Guilty
“In 1998, I helped convict two men of murder. I’ve regretted it ever since.”
The Abortions We Don't Talk About
Six women tell their stories.
Tucker Max's Culture War
How the godfather of “fratire” went from chronicling his drunken sexual conquests to ghostwriting Tiffany Haddish’s memoir.
Angels in America: The Complete Oral History
The story behind Tony Kushner’s examination of AIDS and homosexuality.
A Macedonian Tennis Racket
How a 20-year-old from the land of fake news tricked Martina Navratilova, Serena Williams, and the BBC.
