Interviewing Lou Reed: Not a Perfect Day
An interview gone awry.
The Guardian
Video games: The Addiction
Tom Bissell was an acclaimed young writer when he started playing Grand Theft Auto. For the last three years he has been sleep deprived, cocaine fueled, and barely able to write a word—and he has no regrets.
How Robyn Transformed Pop
A profile.
“This Guy Doesn’t Know Anything”
The inside story of Trump’s transition team.
The Real Goldfinger: the London Banker Who Broke the World
The invention of offshore banking.
Country Pride: What I Learned Growing Up in Rural America
For me, country was not a look, a style, or even a conscious attitude, but a physical place, its experience defined by distance from the forces of culture that would commodify it.
How to Be Human
Meet the man who was raised by wolves.
Dear Mr. President
Barack Obama and a tradition of letter-reading.
BDS: How a Controversial Non-violent Movement Has Transformed the Israeli-Palestinian Debate
Is Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions existential threat, a last resort, or both?
How the American Left Is Rediscovering Morality
On the emergence of morality and spirituality on the American left.
The Ugly Scandal That Cancelled the Nobel Prize
“The academy’s prestige has been shattered, probably forever,” by allegations of sexual harassment and corruption.
‘Nothing to Worry About. The Water is Fine’: How Flint Poisoned its People
When the people of Flint, Michigan, complained that their tap water smelled bad and made children sick, it took officials 18 months to accept there was a problem.
The Spectacular Power of Big Lens
The rise of an amazing optical corporation and the future of our eyes.
The Woman Who Turns Actors into Stars
A profile of casting director Nina Gold.
The Murder that Shook Iceland
How the killing of a 20-year-old woman upended a nation’s sense of itself.
Death in the Snow
In 2001, a young Japanese woman walked into the North Dakota woods and froze to death. Had she come in search of the $1 million dollars buried nearby in the film Fargo?
The Cambridge Analytica Files: Meet the Data War Whistleblower
“I created Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool.”
Why Silicon Valley Billionaires are Prepping for the Apocalypse in New Zealand
How an extreme libertarian tract predicting the collapse of liberal democracies – written by Jacob Rees-Mogg’s father – inspired the likes of Peter Thiel to buy up property across the Pacific
The Fight for the Right to be Muslim in America
A bitter legal row over a mosque in an affluent New Jersey town shows the new face of Islamophobia in the age of Trump.
How a New Technology Is Changing the Lives of People Who Cannot Speak
The same “Stephen Hawking voice” is used by little girls, old men, and people of every racial and ethnic background. Inside the quest to give people a voice of their own.
The Scammers Gaming India’s Overcrowded Job Market
When a call center gig turns out to be something else.
The True Story of the Fake U.S. Embassy in Ghana
Last year, the U.S. state department said it had uncovered a fake embassy in Accra that had been issuing a stream of forged visas. The story went viral. It was wrong.
How the Sandwich Consumed Britain
The story of a national obsession.
Shades of Greene
On Graham Greene, the master of “ethical ambivalence.”
Is It Too Late to Save the World?
The role of a writer in 2017.
