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Notes On "Camp"
“Indeed the essence of Camp is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration. And Camp is esoteric—something of a private code, a badge of identity even, among small urban cliques.”
After Karzai
A profile of Afghanistan’s outgoing president.
Fire Alarm
A journalist’s memories of covering the great Baltimore fire of 1904.
Better Living Through Curiosity
A profile of Amar Bose, founder of the Bose Corporation.
Tasers, Drones, and Cold Chicken
Inside the multibillion-dollar business of keeping foreigners out of America.
Ian Urbina, an investigative reporter for The New York Times, just published "The Outlaw Ocean," a four-part series on crime in international waters.
“It is a tribe. It has its norms, its language, and its jealousies. I approached it almost as a foreign country that happened to be disparate, almost a nomadic or exiled population. And one that has extremely strict hierarchies—you know when you’re on a ship that the captain is God.”
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Love—In Other Words
“Love purifies. Suffering never purified anybody; suffering merely intensifies the self-directed drives within us. Any act of love, however--no matter how small--lessens anxiety's grip, gives us a taste of tomorrow, and eases the yoke of our fears. Love, unlike virtue, is not its own reward. The reward of love is peace of mind, and peace of mind is the end of man's desiring.”
The author's first published article.
Man About Town
A profile of rapper Bun B, “the unofficial mayor of Houston.”
Piety and Perversity
On the palm trees of Los Angeles.
On Rape
On the narrative of sexual coercion.
Fascism, Russia, and Ukraine
On the dueling propagandists of Kiev and Moscow.
He Remade Our World
Dick Cheney and the political history of warrantless surveillance.
Damned Yankee
Was Steinbrenner’s Partner the “Madoff of Memorabilia”? Inside a collector’s hoax.
Ina Garten Does It Herself
A map of the Queen of Cookbooks’ rise to power.
What's So Funny?
So many theories of laughter, so many chortles left unexplained.
A Different Drummer
A profile of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, written at the midpoint of his career.
Justice
Dominick Dunne’s account of the trial of his daughter’s murderer.
When Winter Never Ends
The twilight of future Hall of Famer Ichiro Suzuki.
A Changed Woman
A survivor of conversion therapy gets the wedding of her dreams.
Deep into Green
The history of a color.
Bad Blood
The death of a Russian dissident and how radioactive poison became a tool of assassins.
Ghosting
The complicated process of ghostwriting Julian Assange’s autobiography.
Dreams and Anna Karenina
On the particular genius of Tolstoy.
Doctor's Orders
A profile of Doc Johnson, “the Procter & Gamble of sex toys.”
