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‘They Are Manufacturing Foreigners’
How India disenfranchises Muslims.
Waiting for Prosperity
How the real estate boom left Black neighborhoods behind.
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.”
Playboy Goes West
As Playboy magazine moves to Los Angeles, the writer considers its place in the Midwest.
No other general interest magazine tried to reach readers in the wide swathe of land between New York and California. “It was a Midwestern magazine, designed for people there. If you wanted it to be hip, edgy, go toe-to-toe with GQ, you were making a mistake,” said Chris Napolitano, a former executive editor who began at Playboy in 1988.
Stephanie McCrummen is a national enterprise reporter at The Washington Post.
“I do have to psych myself up. There’s always something awkward about it and that never goes away. … No matter how long I do this job, that part of it doesn’t get any easier. It’s always a bit awkward and you’re always sort of humbled when someone actually is willing to talk to you. Then it can be kind of thrilling, once you’re in it, once you’re actually in the conversation. ... But the moment a few seconds before that is still—to this day, it’s sort of an act of will.”
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Susan Dominus is a staff writer at the New York Times Magazine.
"A lot of reporting is really just hanging around and not going home until something interesting happens."
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The Many Lives of Aubrey Lee Price
A pastor-turned-banker fakes his own death after allegedly embezzling millions and defrauding investors.
The Woman Who Walked 10,000 Miles (No Exaggeration) in Three Years
Sarah Marquis’s very long hike.
The Exacting, Expansive Mind of Christopher Nolan
The Interstellar director and the art of the blockbuster cult film.
The Legend of Chris Kyle
A profile of the deadliest sniper in American history, who was murdered last month by a fellow soldier.
Waking Up on the Wrong Side of a Ratings War
On “Operation Bambi,” the secret plan to oust “Today” show co-host Ann Curry.
An Oral History of the March on Washington
A pivotal Civil Rights rally recalled, 50 years later.
The Opt-Out Generation Wants Back In
Women who left their careers to be stay-at-home mothers reflect on the decision ten years later.
460 Days in Captivity
A 27-year old reporter is kidnapped in Somalia and held hostage for over a year.
Eat, Pray, Love, Get Rich, Write a Novel No One Expects
A profile of Elizabeth Gilbert, whose bestselling memoir may have sunk her literary career.
A Lost Boy Grows Up
The journey from a Sudanese refugee camp to an Atlanta police academy.
There’s a Reason They Call Them ‘Crazy Ants’
A battle against an invasive breed of ants has begun in Texas. It also might be over already.
The Last, Disposable Action Hero
In Hollywood’s new blockbuster economy, the actors who portray superheroes are as interchangeable as the costumes they wear.
Online Poker's Big Winner
A profile of 21-year-old Dan Cates, who made $5.5 million playing 145,215 hands in 2010.
How Radiolab Is Transforming the Airwaves
The emergence of a radio phenomenon popular amongst young demographic believed lost to interactive distractions.
Blocking the Transmission of Violence
A profile of CeaseFire, a group of “violence interrupters” attempting to prevent street shootings by treating them like an infectious disease.
The Town That Burned Itself Down
For 18 months, Coatesville, Penn., was besieged with an improbable number of arsons. But who started the fires – and why?
The Hot-Money Cowboys of Baghdad
On the investors betting big on the Iraqi economy, which they believe has nowhere to go but up.
The Redeemer
A profile of filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar during the 2004 Cannes International Film Festival.
