Children of Men Might Be the Most Relevant Film of 2016
Revisiting the 2006 masterpiece.
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The Silent Season of a Hero
The complicated post-retirement life of Joe DiMaggio.
The Feminist Paradox of Cathy Guisewite
A profile of “Cathy” creator Cathy Guisewite.
On Behalf of the Plutocrats
Kathy Wylde’s winding path from community organizer to “lone defender of the billionaires.”
Where's _why? : The Disappearance of One of the World’s Most Beloved Computer Programmers
On the mysterious disappearance of a beloved coding legend (and his code) with stops along the way for a short history of programming languages, an ethnography of code-based communities, and an inquiry into what it means to “die young without artifact.”
Don DeLillo: The Art of Fiction No. 135
We have a rich literature. But sometimes it’s a literature too ready to be neutralized, to be incorporated into the ambient noise. This is why we need the writer in opposition, the novelist who writes against power, who writes against the corporation or the state or the whole apparatus of assimilation. We’re all one beat away from becoming elevator music.
The Family That Built an Empire of Pain
The Sackler dynasty’s ruthless marketing of painkillers has generated billions of dollars—and millions of addicts.
The Plunging Morale of America’s Service Members
“If you think the mission your country keeps sending you on is pointless or impossible and that you’re only deploying to protect your brothers and sisters in arms from danger, then it’s not the Taliban or al-Qaeda or isis that’s trying to kill you, it’s America.”
Remembering Peter Beard, The King of Old Montauk
The photographer who showed us the world always kept coming back to a little town by the sea.
The Future of Advertising
A survey on where the industry is headed. Says one agency veteran: “Marketing in the future is like sex. Only the losers will have to pay for it.”
The Smutty-Metaphor Queen of Lawrence, Kansas
A profile of the internet’s poet, Patricia Lockwood.
The Quirky Allure of 'Twin Peaks'
A digressive consideration of the popular new show.
The Unraveling of Bo Xilai
Tracking the circuitous fall of a Chinese political star.
The Last Days Of Jam Master Jay
On the murder of Jam Master Jay.
The Maturation of the Billionaire Boy-Man
A profile of Mark Zuckerberg, savvy CEO.
Out of the Woods
Visiting a semi-secret LGBTQ commune in the middle of Tennessee.
Inside the Kremlin’s Hall of Mirrors
Fake news stories. Doctored photographs. Staged TV clips. Armies of paid trolls.
The Lingering of Loss
On motherhood, writing, and the death of a friend.
The Secret History of Page Six
On the past, present, and future of gossip.
The Political Education of Killer Mike
A profile of the rapper and activist.
Trouble at the "Lamborghini" of Border Walls
The privately funded effort in danger of falling down.
The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race
The case against agriculture.
China’s Queer Internet Is Being Erased
LGBTQI groups found rare freedoms online, but this year, many were shut by censors. It feels like slowly being sanded down, said one member.
The Truth of El Mozote
The story of a massacre in El Salvador.
The World Cup of Dirty Dreams
Behind the doors of Centaurus, Rio’s most infamous brothel.
