What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?
The real question is this: can I love the art but hate the artist? Can you? When I say we, I mean I. I mean you.
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The real question is this: can I love the art but hate the artist? Can you? When I say we, I mean I. I mean you.
Claire Dederer The Paris Review Nov 2017 20min Permalink
Decades after the company tried to tackle sexual misconduct at two Chicago plants, harassment and assault continues.
Susan Chira, Catrin Einhorn New York Times Dec 2017 25min Permalink
A Philadelphia neighborhood is the largest open-air narcotics market for heroin on the East Coast. Addicts come from all over, and many never leave.
Jennifer Percy New York Times Magazine Oct 2018 25min Permalink
Last December, a Canadian pharmaceuticals executive and his wife were found strangled in their home. No one knows who did it or why, but everyone has a theory.
Matthew Campbell Businessweek Oct 2018 30min Permalink
A secretive hedge fund used the British court system to punish an IP thief‚ even though he was already in jail.
Kit Chellel, Jeremy Hodges Bloomberg Businessweek Nov 2018 20min Permalink
Amid the brutal civil war, a town fought off the regime and the fundamentalists—and dared to hold an election. Can its experiment in democracy survive?
Anand Gopal New Yorker Nov 2018 45min Permalink
With “The Apprentice,” the TV producer mythologized Trump—then a floundering D-lister—as the ultimate titan, paving his way to the Presidency.
Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Dec 2018 50min Permalink
The Booker Prize-winning novelist on fantasy, reality, and a religious crisis that has never ended.
Jia Tolentino New Yorker Jan 2019 Permalink
The U.S. had been his home since he was 6 months old. When he was deported to Mexico 26 years later, it was more than he could bear.
Valeria Fernández California Sunday Aug 2019 20min Permalink
In 2008, a federally owned power plant spewed coal sludge over 300 acres in Tennessee. Now, 40 people who helped clean up the mess are dead and 300 ill.
J.R. Sullivan Men's Journal Aug 2019 35min Permalink
There’s a hidden cost to the way Florida’s farmers bring in the sugar crop. Just visit the hospitals and measure the climate impact.
Paul Tullis Bloomberg Businessweek Mar 2020 15min Permalink
For the Zulu club, a black social organization in New Orleans, Mardi Gras was a joy. The coronavirus made it a tragedy.
Linda Villarosa New York Times Magazine Apr 2020 30min Permalink
Scientists are studying the extreme weather in northern Argentina to see how it works—and what it can tell us about the monster storms in our future.
Noah Gallagher Shannon New York Times Magazine Jul 2020 25min Permalink
George Floyd’s killing galvanized a nation. But small groups like the queer-led collective Black Visions are channeling that energy into a movement for political change.
Jenna Wortham New York Times Magazine Aug 2020 30min Permalink
When the business icon died in a fire last week, questions abounded. The answers seem rooted in a Covid-period spiral, where he turned to drugs and shunned old friends.
Angel Au-Yeung, David Jeans Forbes Dec 2020 Permalink
A drone sighting caused the airport to close for two days in 2018, but despite a lengthy police investigation, no culprit was ever found. So what exactly did people see in the sky?
Samira Shackle The Guardian Dec 2020 20min Permalink
When his parents marriage imploded, the author’s mother said his father was worthless, a con man. A bad investment in their lives. But years later, a mysterious book about Wall Street showed up—a gift from his father—that began to change the story.
Joshua Ferris Wealthsimple Magazine Dec 2020 20min Permalink
She fabricated harrowing personal backstories, peddled gross caricatures, and spoke from perspectives she had no right to claim. And nobody stopped her.
Marisa M. Kashino Washingtonian Jan 2021 20min Permalink
Patients say the “Rock Doc” helped them like no one else could. Federal prosecutors say his “help” often amounted to dealing drugs for sex.
Olga Khazan The Atlantic Jan 2021 30min Permalink
Outrageous lies destroyed Guy Babcock’s online reputation. When he went hunting for their source, what he discovered was worse than he could have imagined.
Kashmir Hill New York Times Jan 2021 15min Permalink
“When a man steps onto the road, his journey begins. When a woman steps onto that same road, hers ends.”
Vanessa Veselka The American Reader Mar 2013 15min Permalink
Michael Savage used his position at San Francisco’s Presidio to stir up a controversy over Japanese American internment.
Dave Gilson Mother Jones Apr 2021 20min Permalink
In the ’90s, a frustrated artist in Berlin went on a crime spree—building bombs, extorting high-end stores, and styling his persona after Scrooge McDuck. He soon became a German folk hero.
Jeff Maysh New Yorker May 2021 20min Permalink
In 1970 South Central, pigeon fancying was serious business. But there’s a deeper story behind why these Black Angelenos are entering their fifth and sixth decade raising Birmingham Roller pigeons.
Shanna B. Tiayon Pipe Wrench Jun 2021 30min Permalink
Megan Lundstrom understands more than most the conditions that force women into dangerous situations—she also has the key to help them escape.
John H. Tucker Elle Aug 2021 20min Permalink