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Sarma Melngailis owned a booming vegan restaurant beloved by celebrities. But after systematically draining the company bank account, she and her husband skipped town. Last week, after nearly a year on the lam, they were arrested in a Fairfield Inn & Suites in Tennessee. The cops found them after they ordered Domino’s.
He set a world record in the 100-yard dash as a teenager. He was mentored by Muhammad Ali and a man who orchestrated the largest bank embezzlement in U.S. history. He was homeless for part of his adult life before making a comeback at age 34. Throughout it all, Houston McTear was really, really fast.
We ate in our own restaurants, stayed in our own hotels, and hired our own guides. We moved through a parallel Paris—and a parallel Rome, Milan, and so on.
The reporter takes a whirlwind guided bus tour of a Europe with a group of Chinese tourists.
The life and times of two professional muggers in 1970’s lower Manhattan:
Hector and Louise usually work whatever neighborhood they’re living in. They knock over every old man on the block, every young man who follows Louise’s swinging hips and pocketbook, and every young girl attracted by Hector’s olive eyes. They rough up all of them, take whatever money is there, and then move on.
The macabre, ultra-violent plays put on at the Grand Guignol defined an era in Paris, attracting foreign tourists, aristocrats, and celebrities. Goering and Patton saw plays there in the same year. But the carnage of WWII ultimately undermined the shock of Guignol’s brutality, and audiences disappeared.
In 1967, a 56-year-old lawyer met a young inmate with a brilliant mind and horrifying stories about life inside. Their complicated alliance—and even more complicated romance—would shed light on a nationwide scandal, disrupt a system of abuse and virtual slavery across the state, and change incarceration in Texas forever.
Nathaniel Rich is a novelist and a writer-at-large for The New York Times Magazine. His most recent article is "Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change."
“There’s a huge opportunity with climate change because we talk a lot about the political issue with it, the industry story and the scientific story, but we don’t talk about the human story. And I would say that not only is it a big human story, but it is the human story. ... With every step of the ladder that we’ve advanced, we’re borrowing from our future. I don’t think we’ve reckoned with that in a serious way.”
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A secret hope of mine, which I now find hilarious: I imagined that once I had a child, I would become a faster writer. Faster, and also better. It’s hard for me to reconstruct the optimistic logic that led me to this hypothesis. I think I honestly believed that if I did not have the option to write badly, I would simply evolve, like that Lamarckian giraffe, into a more efficient creature.
How MSG became “perhaps the most infamously misunderstood and maligned three letters in the history of food.”
“Turns out your laptop—or camera or gaming system or gold necklace—may have a smidgen of Congo’s pain somewhere in it.”
Growing up in a Toronto suburb while a serial rapist is on the loose.
A profile of the world’s top photo retoucher, who typically can retouch over 100 images in a single issue of Vogue.
The war between Major League Baseball and Alex Rodriguez, “fought with six-figure payoffs in the tanning salons and strip malls of South Florida.”
A cave in Russia, a long-lost tip of a pinkie bone, and the discovery of a new kind of human being.
A bungled operation in Honduras and the enduring ineffectiveness of America’s war on drugs.
In between projects, the director searches for “that next soul-nourishing gig.”
A profile of former club kid Michael Alig, who is approaching release after serving 17 years in jail for murder.
There are 45,000 service members missing in action from WWII and other wars who experts say are recoverable. Last year, the U.S. brought home 60 of them.
The story of “the biggest retail hack in U.S. history.”
Paul Bremer was briefly the Bush administration’s point person in Iraq. His decisions would have lasting consequences.
Summiting one of the world’s toughest peaks gave Julian Torres something an IED blast in Afghanistan had taken away.
A pro-Ukraine activist goes silent in separatist-held Donetsk. A foreign correspondent goes looking for him.
What went wrong when a group of canyoneers was caught by a flash flood in Zion National Park.
How the truth still eludes the investigation of the killing of four boys in Joypur, which sparked a bloody riot and massive displacement.
Across the world, millions of displaced Syrians have been met with hesitation and hostility. Not in Canada.
