From Basketball Bad Boy to Dubious Diplomat
A profile of Dennis Rodman today.
Profile
Thin Mountain Air
How pitching phenom Steve Carlton became a yoga-loving conspiracy theorist who calls a concrete bunker his home.
Leslie Van Houten: A Friendship
The filmmaker on his relationship with former Manson Family member, currently serving a life sentence for murder. An excerpt from Role Models.
At Home With Claire Messud and James Wood, the First Couple of American Fiction
Dinner with the novelist, the book critic and “Myshkin, a 14-year-old female dachshund who is deaf but decidedly not mute.”
John le Carré Has Not Mellowed With Age
A profile of the spy writer.
David Lee Roth Will Not Go Quietly
A profile of the Van Halen frontman.
Kehinde the First
A profile of Kehinde Wiley, a painter who inserts the “brown faces” that have historically been relegated to the background in Western art.
Garrett Holeve, an MMA Fighter With Down Syndrome, Is on His Way to Changing the Sport
“At the gym, he’s not Garrett Holeve, the guy with Down syndrome. He’s G-Money, an up-and-coming fighter with big ambitions.”
She Flies Through the Air with the Greatest of Ease
Life as a human cannonball.
After the Mile
The story of Tim Danielson, one of America’s top high school distance runners, who went on to murder his ex-wife.
Here's Jimmy Kimmel
A profile of the late-night host.
Up From Downey
A profile of Richard and Karen Carpenter.
Megan Phelps-Roper of Westboro Baptist Church: An heir to hate
The next generation of America’s most controversial (and likely most despised) church.
Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder Brings Woman Agony, Not Ecstasy
Gretchen Molannen was perpetually aroused. She couldn’t work or sleep.
On December 1, the day after this story was published, she killed herself.
This Is Amazing!
A profile of Huell Howser, the happiest man on TV.
Still Richard
Richard Simmons at 64, sweatin’ to the oldies (and country and disco) thrice weekly.
Murdering the Impossible
A profile of Reinhold Messner, the greatest mountain climber of all time.
The Un-Communicator
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, profiled.
He Came from Outer Space
Barry Zito, profiled.
The Broke Broker: He’s Got Keys to the Best Apartments, But Lacks One of His Own
Bruce Cawsey Waite has no home, no office, and wears a dead man’s suit.
The Smartest Man in America
Profiles of people with genius-level IQs.
Joel Klein's Misleading Autobiography
The former chancellor of New York City schools was not, in fact, “a child of the streets. He was not an academically unmotivated student. He did not come from a deprived family background. He did not grow up in public housing as we understand it today.”
The Supermarket of Struggling Artists
On the staff of a Trader Joe’s in New York City.
John Kennedy, New Yorker
A remembrance of JFK, Jr.
23 Reasons Why a Profile of Pete Carroll Does Not Appear in This Space
An attempt at writing about the football coach.
