A Kind of Vast Fiction
An email dialogue between David Gates and Jonathan Lethem on writing fiction in the age of online experiences.
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You'll Never Power-Lunch in This Town Again
The Four Seasons restaurant rose to fame as a place to cut deals and be seen. Then its chauvinistic ways – and, specifically, those of its owner – caught up with it.
Buried in Baltimore
Decades after a young nun was murdered, a group of former Catholic high school students begin to suspect that an abusive priest may have been the culprit.
Bill Hwang Had $20 Billion, Then Lost It All in Two Days
The fast rise and even faster fall of a trader who bet big with borrowed money.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Do You Want New Wave or Do You Want the Truth?"
An addict navigates 1980s Detroit.
The Private Lives of the Cryptozoologists
A visit to a Maine museum devoted to Bigfoot and other mythical creatures.
The Hot-Money Cowboys of Baghdad
On the investors betting big on the Iraqi economy, which they believe has nowhere to go but up.
Haruki Murakami: The Art of Fiction No. 182
An interview with the novelist.
The Unbelievable Skepticism of the Amazing Randi
The magician who spent his life debunking spiritualists and exposing con men.
The Passing of a Sixties Showman
How Warren Hinckle and Ramparts magazine helped revive muckraking journalism and launch the New Left.
The Making of an American Nazi
How Andrew Anglin went from being an antiracist vegan to the alt-right’s most vicious troll.
Meet the Safecracker of Last Resort
Charlie Santore sees Los Angeles from the inside, by breaking into safes whose owners can no longer unlock them.
The Life and Death of an Instafish
What one funny-looking fish taught us about evolution, the internet, and the monsters we create.
A Photographer at the Ends of the Earth
Thomas Joshua Cooper risks his life to document the world’s remotest places.
The Logic of Power
On the fraught relationship between Bolivia’s Evo Morales and the indigenous activists who support him.
Where Year Two of the Pandemic Will Take Us
As vaccines roll out, the U.S. will face a choice about what to learn and what to forget.
A Wild Country Grows in South Sudan
A portrait of a new nation.
In Rust Belt, a Teenager’s Climb from Poverty
A profile of 11th-grader Tabitha Rouzzo.
Chris Rock in a Hard Place
On the road with the comic after a bitter divorce.
How to Succeed in Silicon Valley Without Really Trying
Tech investors gave Seth Bannon, co-founder of the seemingly surging startup Amicus, over four million dollars, despite knowing almost nothing about him.
What I Lost in Libya
How an academic found herself imprisoned by Qaddafi.
Artists in Uniform
"The Colonel went out sailing. He spoke with Turk and Jew . . ."
Hammer in Her Hand
At 76, Atlanta’s Beverly “Guitar” Watkins still lives for the blues.
Blood and Soil in India
On Narendra Modi’s Hindu-nationalist movement.
In Too Deep
Did an affair with a Russian agent push Overstock’s Patrick Byrne too far?
