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Blurred Vision
Looking for answers after an ayahuasca murder in Peru.
Billionaires, Bombers, and Bellydancers
On a century of Muslim misrepresentation in Hollywood.
Jordan’s Moment
The story of one of the great final acts in sports history.
Trashed: Inside the Deadly World of Private Garbage Collection
“We know we down in this shithole together.”
The Feminization of Bill Laimbeer
A Bad Boy coaches in the WNBA.
Sandra Bland Died One Year Ago
On the epidemic of deaths in jails.
A Litany for Survival
Giving birth as a black woman in America.
Lauren Underwood Is the Future
A profile of the youngest Black woman in Congress.
The Friend
When the author’s wife was dying, his best friend moved in.
What Slime Knows
“There is no hierarchy in the web of life.”
David Epstein has reported for ProPublica, Sports Illustrated, and This American Life. His new book is Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World.
“You can’t just introspect or take a personality quiz and know what you’re good at or interested in. You actually have to try stuff and then reflect on it. That’s how you learn about yourself—otherwise, your insight into yourself is constrained by your roster of experiences.”
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Daisy Alioto is a journalist and the CEO of Dirt Media.
“I don't think I was ever super precious about my writing, but if I was, I'm zero percent precious about it now. Every time I write for Dirt, it saves the company money. ... Nothing will make you sit down and write 800 words in 20 minutes than just needing to get it done. And that is a change that I've seen in myself. I would encourage everyone to be less precious about their writing.”
Frank Rich, a former culture and political columnist for The New York Times, writes for New York and is the executive producer of Veep.
“All audiences bite back. If you have an opinion—forget about whether it’s theater or politics. If it’s about sports, fashion, or food—it doesn’t really matter. Readers are gonna bite back. And they should, you know? Everyone’s entitled. Everyone’s a critic. Everyone should have an opinion. You’re not laying down the law, and people should debate it.”
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Rembert Browne is a staff writer at Grantland.
“I'm ok with not being at my most refined online at all times. It's happening in real time and some of that is therapeutic. I could write a lot this stuff privately, but I'd rather just hit publish and see what happens. It's a weird world. But I'm super deep in.”
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The Sometimes-Picayune
“Has anybody in Westchester County ever called the New York Times his or her ‘friend’? I realize that the rest of America, in its post-Katrina fatigue, is pretty tired of hearing New Orleanians, the city’s acolytes and defenders, always carrying on about how it’s the most unique city in America, but, the fact is, it is. Get over it.
And so, too, is its newspaper.”
Edir Macedo, Brazil's Billionaire Bishop
“Which is the largest country in the world, economically speaking? It’s America, the United States. Do you know why? Because way back—this is history, you can look it up on the Internet—the colonization was done by men who believed in the word of God. And they were tithers. That’s why you see on the dollar bill: ‘In God we trust.”
The Baby Goat Murders
“I saw the son of a bitch while I was up on my tractor, running the rotary cutter along a wall of green sagegrass that was five feet high. It was August in Mississippi, hot, on over in the afternoon but not near sundown. The sky had softened, and the coyote was trotting along in the open like the most unconcerned thing you could imagine.”
Renata Adler is a journalist, critic, and novelist. Her latest collection of nonfiction is After the Tall Timber.
“Unless you're going to be fairly definite, what's the point of writing?”
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Hitler Is Dead
All violence is not like all other violence. Every Jewish death is not like every other Jewish death. To believe otherwise is to revive the old typological thinking about Jewish history, according to which every enemy of the Jews is the same enemy, and there is only one war, and it is a war against extinction, and it is a timeless war.
Coke, Hookers, Hospital, Repeat
GQ moved up the release of this Charlie Sheen profile: ”The fucking AA shit. The sobriety shit. It was always for other people. I just wanted to get a job back and get enough money to tell everybody to go fuck themselves and then roll like Errol Flynn and Frank Sinatra—the good parts of those guys.”
Adam McKay is a film director, writer, and host of the podcast Death at the Wing.
“Sometimes you do a project and then you look back and you’re like, Ah, shit. I let some of myself get in the way of that. It sucks, but it’s also a part of it. And there are so many times where you’re excited that the story did take off, the wind did catch the sail and it went off on its own. And that just feels so good that it far outweighs the times when you make a mistake, or let something go wrong, or too long, or hit the wrong tone. Which is going to happen. There’s no way around it. But those times when it all just catches perfectly—it’s just so exciting that you keep doing it.”
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The Magic Jews
Adventures with a group of young Hasidic men looking for God in psychedelic drugs.
The Tiger Cure
One man’s experience with a sex surrogate in gay-conversion therapy.
The War for Nigeria
How sectarian violence has made life in northern Nigeria “incomprehensibly frightful.”
