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Calling Art
On the wandering career and sweet baritone voice of Art Laboe, the DJ behind the phrase “oldies but goodies.”
Echoes from a Distant Battlefield
The battle of Wanat—the most scrutinized engagement in the Afghanistan War—seen from three perspectives: a dead soldier, his father, and his commander.
How Detroit Was Reborn
The inside story of how the city, broke and bleak and nearing the edge, saved itself.
Sally Mann's Exposure
In 1992, a magazine story introduced the world to the photographs of Sally Mann. Here, she responds to the firestorm that article produced.
Gay Marriage’s Jewish Pioneer
Meet Faygele ben Miriam, the radical activist “beyond the leading edge” of the same-sex marriage fight.
Home
After the explosion of the Columbia shuttle in 2003, two American astronauts aboard the International Space Station suddenly found themselves with no ride home.
Clip-On Tie
The author recalls his time as a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Surviving It All
The resilience of Marga Griesbach, 92, who made it through the Holocaust, and set off for a cruise around the world in February.
Matt Damon’s Disappearing Acts
The enduring career of the megastar no one really knows.
Broken Promise
On the meeting of shaggy-haired American ping pong ace Glenn Cowan and Chinese master Zhuang Zedong (who died this week), and how their fleeting friendship thawed relations between the twon nations during the U.S. team’s historic 1971 tour of China.
On Doris Lessing
At the age fifteen, Jenny Diski, a “foundling,” went to live with Doris Lessing. For fifty years, the two talked every week. Diski promised Lessing that she would never write about her but now, after Lessing’s death, Diski has begun to recount the story of their relationship.
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What To Call Her?
The question of how to name her relationship with Lessing plagued Diski.
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Doris and Me
Lessing invited Diski into her home, but did she want her there?
Fighting + Otherwise
A travelogue of a three-month tour of Muay Thai boxing camps in Thailand. The author, 28, died in a hit-and-run shortly after returning to the U.S.
Patton Oswalt's Letters to Both Sides
Creators, gatekeepers, and the future of the comedy business.
A transcript of Oswalt’s keynote at last week’s Just For Laughs conference.
‘My Dearest Fidel’: An ABC Journalist’s Secret Liaison With Fidel Castro
The untold story of how Lisa Howard’s intimate diplomacy with Cuba’s revolutionary leader changed the course of the Cold War.
America’s Covid Swab Supply Depends on Two Cousins Who Hate Each Other
The pandemic brought the business opportunity of a lifetime to Puritan Medical Products of Guilford, Maine. But even a $250 million infusion from the U.S. government has done little to quell an epic family feud.
Living With Depression and Anxiety During a Global Pandemic
“With mood disorders on the rise during the COVID-19 pandemic, people who’ve never experienced mental health issues are enduring some of the emotions I feel almost every day of my life. Maybe that’s why I can finally tell my story.”
Opium's Varied Dreams
"Opium does not deprive you of your senses. It does not make a madman of you. But drink does. See? Who ever heard of a man committing murder when full of hop. Get him full of whiskey and he might kill his father."
A journey into New York’s turn-of-the-century opium dens to find out who gets hooked and why.
How to Win Founders and Influence Everybody
Margit Wennmachers is Andreessen Horowitz’s secret weapon.
There’s an Entire Industry Dedicated to Making Foods Crispy
And it is wild.
Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage
There is such thing as a free lunch.
Olya's Story
A year after her ‘Hell,’ Olga Sharypova is ready to speak out.
Untimely Futures
In Oakland, California, when it comes to Black homelessness and dispossession, dystopia is already here.
Solitary in Iran Nearly Broke Me. Then I Went Inside America's Prisons.
“For hours, days, I fixated on the patch of sunlight cast against my wall through those barred and grated windows. When, after five weeks, my knees buckled and I fell to the ground utterly broken, sobbing and rocking to the beat of my heart, it was the patch of sunlight that brought me back.”
Looking for Hemingway
On George Plimpton and the founders of The Paris Review.
Early in the fifties another young generation of American expatriates in Paris became twenty-six years old, but they were not Sad Young Men, nor were they Lost; they were the witty, irreverent sons of a conquering nation.
