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Firsthand accounts of the largest and most ambitious internment drive of a minority group since Nazi Germany, emerging from a region of totalitarian surveillance and control.
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How Two British Orthodontists Became Celebrities to Incels
The Mews, a father-son team of orthodontists, have an unusual theory about the source of crooked teeth — one that has earned them a following in some of the darker corners of the internet.
Deep Intellect
The soul of an octopus.
You’re Wrong, You’re Wrong, You’re Definitely Wrong, and I’m Probably Wrong, Too
What it was like to edit The New Republic at its most contentious.
One of the little tweaks I made the first time I got the job was to change the slogan on the table of contents from “A Journal of Politics and the Arts” back to the original: “A Weekly Journal of Opinion.” All the fine reporting notwithstanding, what The New Republic did best, had always done best, was opinion. Its politics were polemical, its art was the art of argument.
Rooked
The evolution of cheating in chess.
Guilty
The tormenting of Wen Ho Lee.
Sight Unseen
The allure of invisibility.
Nick Nolte: Malibu’s Mad Scientist
How the actor ended up with a house full of tourniquets and syringes, an unflinching belief in the restorative powers of “ozone,” and the brain scan of someone who has “experienced the equivalent of blunt trauma.”
Aftermath
The end of a marriage.
Nathaniel Rich writes for Rolling Stone, Harper's and the New York Times Magazine. His latest novel is Odds Against Tomorrow.
"I'm drawn to obsession. I think I'm an obsessive in a way, probably most writers are. It's an obsessive act to sit at a desk by yourself."
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Listening to Beck
A profile of Beck on the eve of his new album and nearly 20 years after the release of “Loser.”
Does a Sugar Bear Bite?
A profile of Suge Knight, 29 and the C.E.O. of Death Row Records, before the deaths of Tupac and Notorious B.I.G.
Spectacle
On the 1934 lynching of Claude Neal, and the Florida town that kept the identity of those responsible a secret.
Jackie's Goodbye
The cost of Alzheimer’s.
Held Back
On the public schools of Detroit.
White Utopia
The racist foundation of Oregon.
10 Timeframes
On the shifting nature of time.
Bad News
Selling the story of disinformation.
Ariel Levy is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of The Rules Do Not Apply.
“I don’t believe in ‘would this’ and ‘would that.’ There’s no ‘everything happens for a reason.’ Everything happens, and then you just fucking deal. I mean we could play that game with everything, but time only moves in one direction. That’s a bad game. You shouldn’t play that game—you’ll break your own heart.”
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Young Blood
Exploring the possibility that injecting the old with the blood of the young can reverse the aging process.
Ta-Nehisi Coates is an author and journalist. He served as guest editor for the September issue of Vanity Fair, titled "The Great Fire."
“There’s this pressure to say something. Say something. The world’s burning, say something. But I try to stay where I’ve been or where I’ve tried to be in my career. ... Good things take time. You gotta let things cook. You can’t insta-bake something like this.”
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Why Go Out?
On attempting to quit people and stay home.
Why go out? Because if what we want more than anything is to attain self-confidence, health, energy, and peace of mind, we should stay in. We could be like little Buddhas, meditating and masturbating and watching TV. And we could imagine ourselves to be brilliant, and kind, and good lecturers, and good listeners, and utterly loving – and there’d be no way to prove it otherwise.
Reincarnation in Exile
The challenges of growing up in the modern world as the reincarnation of a famous Tibetan lama.
Sorority Row
On the enduring political influence and entrenched racism of the Greek system at the University of Alabama.
Typewriter Man
The need for a new letter on an old manual machine leads the author to the shop of Martin Tytell — repairman, historian, and high priest of typewriters.
