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Consider the Lobster
A trip to a lobster festival leads to an examination of the culinary and ethical dimensions of cooking a live, possibly sentient, creature.
The Undercover Fascist
A young British man was drawn to a white-supremacist group, until they started plotting to kill.
The Secret Formula
Could shrunken heads from the Amazon hold the key to curing cancer? One man thought so—and spent a lifetime trying to prove it.
The Jessica Simulation
The death of the woman he loved was too much to bear. Could a mysterious website allow him to speak with her once more?
Sam Anderson is a writer for New York Times Magazine and the author of Boom Town.
“I love being in that place where everything is just coming in, and everything is potentially important, and I’m underlining every great sentence that John McPhee has ever written and then I’m typing it up into this embarrassingly long set of reading notes, documents, organized by books. And then when you sit down with it as a writer who has a job, and his job is to fill a little window of a magazine or website, all of that ecstatic inhaling has to stop. You realize that you’ve collected approximately 900,000% of what you need or could ever use.”
Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah is an essayist. Her 2017 GQ piece “A Most American Terrorist: The Making of Dylann Roof” won the National Magazine Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
“I remember feeling like ‘you’re playing chess with evil, and you gotta win.’ Because this is the most terrible thing I’d ever seen. And I was so mad. I still get so mad. Words aren’t enough. I’m angry about it. I can’t do anything to Dylann Roof, physically, so this is what I could do.”
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Tavi Gevinson is a writer, actor, and the founder of Rookie. Her new zine is Fan Fiction.
“Stories are unstable, and memory is unstable, and identity is unstable. All of these things that I've tried to make permanent in writing, they're actually unstable. So even though it's tempting to go, Oh, that was fake, it's more like, No, it was just temporary.”
The Cheerleaders
A small town in Upstate New York, and one family in particular, endures a five-year string of car accidents, suicides, and murders.
Finding Oscar
A man living in the Boston suburbs learns he could be one of the only survivors of a 1982 massacre in Guatemala.
Girls Fight Out
When 16 women live in a house, compete on a UFC reality show, and punch each other in the face.
Terror Is the Wrong Word
On the promise of 23-year-old Nicholas Cleves, who died in the bike path attack in New York.
A Girl, Her Pimp, and Her Parents
A family turns to murder to save one of their own.
Around Alone
The story of 1968’s Golden Globe, a race to see who could become the first sailor to circumnavigate the world solo without stopping.
Man vs. Machine
A man had a gift for teaching people to beat the polygraph. Now he’s going to prison.
A Criminal Mind
Dr. Joel Dreyer was a respected psychiatrist. Then he took a sudden turn to a life of drug dealing. Medicine might be able to explain why.
A Porn Star, a Tortured Beauty Queen, a Dead Millionaire, and a Half-Smoked Joint
How John Snavely went from petty criminal to porn star to prison.
Sex, Lies, and Hit Men!
A Houston man allegedly tries to hire several hit men to kill his wife. Each fails miserably. It becomes the talk of the town.
The Jimmy McNulty Gambit
Jimmy McNulty, Mike Daisey, and the problems with skirting the system to get to the greater truth.
My Father and Me: A Spy Story
The highest-ranking CIA officer to be convicted of spying passes the tricks of the trade along to his son.
Grounded
Cheryl Stearns wanted to become the first woman to skydive 20,000 times. She came up 14 jumps short.
Fifty Years at Gombe
On the golden anniversary of her first trip to study chimps, an ode to Jane Goodall.
My Father Says He's A 'Targeted Individual.' Maybe We All Are
A daughter investigates her father’s belief that the government is subjecting him and thousands more to to mind control.
A Conversation With a False Rock God
Jered Threatin tried to fake his way to fame and got caught red-handed. Or did he?
The King of Quarantine
“Yesterday I was just googling, I was going on YouTube to see how to microwave pasta.”
