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He was just another coked-up agent (repping the likes of Steven Soderbergh) when he disappeared into Iraq, shooting heaps of footage he would attempt to package into a pro-war documentary. And that was just the beginning.
Gang-bang buffet tables, deeply earnest 'Letters to the Editor,' ghost-writing Kierkegaard references into model bios in Barely Legal, and how a half-decade of reviewing porn eroded the thin line between the author's alter egos and self.
A journalist on the troll who tried to destroy her.
A profile of Theo Epstein, the architect behind the Chicago Cubs.
On the strange relationship between Lionel Messi and his Argentinian hometown.
The perspective-bending art of identical twins Trevor and Ryan Oakes.
Inside the Cleveland Indians clubhouse during their 22 game win streak.
Rukmini Callimachi covers ISIS for The New York Times and is the host of Caliphate.
“My major takeaway that I have come away with in this work is go to the enemy. Talk to the enemy. I think that the way that Al Qaeda and ISIS is typically covered is by reporters who just speak to officials in Washington. ... That’s only one side of the story. And I have learned so much by seeking out their documents, reading their propaganda ... speaking to them themselves.”
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At 90 years old, Lawrence Hill’s mother was ready to end it all on her own terms, but Canada’s assisted-dying law was too strict to allow that.
An interview with Lawrence Schiller, himself one of the great interviewers of his time, whose research fueled Norman Mailer’s Executioner’s Song.
What really happened between the plaintiffs in Lawrence vs. Texas, the case that ended anti-sodomy laws?
The World Cup and Argentina’s “Dirty War.”
Brazil’s restless youth in the lead-up to the World Cup.
The mysterious death of one of college basketball’s most promising coaches.
The people who survived Katrina, ten years later.
An investigation into the true identity of a high school basketball player.
The plight of the uninsured in a red state.
A profile of Ernie Adams, Bill Belichick’s mysterious right hand man.
Searching for Jimmy Robinson, a boxer who fought Muhammad Ali in 1961, then disappeared.
A profile of Jordan at 50.
A conversation on the “bedeviling sorts of indeterminacies one encounters the deeper one drills.”
In 1975, Jackie O., widow to a president and tycoon, decided to become a literary editor.
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A travelogue through the contradiction-rich and predominantly Muslim Southern Thailand.
Alex Mar has written for The Believer, Wired, and New York. She is the author of Witches of America and the director of the documentary American Mystic.
“I really do believe that all of us run on some kind of desire for meaning. And if someone is an atheist and they don’t subscribe to an organized system, it doesn’t mean that they don’t crave something. Maybe it’s their job. Or maybe it’s the way that they raise their children with a certain kind of intense focus. Or something else. As humans, we are built to crave meaning, right? For me, that was something that I wanted to explore about myself.”
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