Cockford's Club
On William Cockford and his 1800s gambling hall in London, where much of the British aristocracy lost its fortune.
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A Leg Rebuilt, a Life Renewed
A profile of former Duke basketball star Jay Williams a decade after the motorcycle crash that ended his career.
A King with No Country
The King of Rwanda is 76 years old, 7 feet 2 inches tall, and lives on public assistance in a small apartment in Virginia.
Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin’s Post-Scandal Playbook
The private life of a disgraced former congressman.
Natural Born Killers
A collection of war stories told by women who have seen combat while serving in the U.S. military.
How to Win in Washington
The rise and fall and rise of Hill flack Kurt Bardella, and what it says about D.C. culture.
James Salter, 1925-2015
A collection of picks by and about the writer, who died Friday.
"That's What Happened Between Me and Clark"
Loretta Young, Clark Gable and the truth behind one of old Hollywood’s greatest scandals.
A Murder in Waurika
Two reports, twelve years apart, on the killing of a high school cheerleader in a small Oklahoma town and its aftermath.
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A Bend in the River
How the body of 16-year-old Heather Rich ended up in Belknap Creek and how the cops found the boys who put it there.
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A Question of Mercy
[sub req'd] More than fifteen years after prosecuting Rich's killers, a district attorney has second thoughts about one of the defendants.
My Detroit Story
A series of first-person essays on a reporter’s relationship with his city. Excerpted from the upcoming Detroit: An American Autopsy.
Killing Orson Welles at Midnight
On Christian Marclay’s film The Clock.
In Which Cristobal Balenciaga and Christian Dior Bring A New Dawn
The intertwining histories of two men who defined twentieth century European style.
Death on Terminal Island
An investigation into the death of Victoria Arellano at a Los Angeles County immigration detention facility.
Capital Murder
The coldest of cases: During 1884-85, seven women and one man were brutally murdered in Austin, Texas.
On Their Own
A portrait of three high school kids in Arizona forced to live on their own after SB 1070.
“I See Everything Through This Tragedy”
An essay on “how we ignore the long-term effects of violence on children, adults and our communities.”
Grace in Broken Arrow
The anatomy of a sex abuse scandal at a Christian school in Oklahoma.
Plain Girl’s Revenge Made Flesh
“When constant revisionism and re-invention is under way, what does it profit a biographer to drag the weary ‘facts’ before us?”
Life’s Rich Pageant: Meet a Florida Man
The story of a young man, a lake with some fish, a compound bow and a very bad idea.
Running Away
April Savino, a teenage homeless runaway, lived in Grand Central Terminal from 1984 until 1987 when she committed suicide on the steps of a nearby church.
Fifty Years at Gombe
On the golden anniversary of her first trip to study chimps, an ode to Jane Goodall.
Friending Aaron Sorkin
A profile of Sorkin, who wrote The Social Network. “I don’t feel like a nerd,” he says, “but I think I understand them.”
Studio Kabul
On the set of Afghanistan’s first soap opera and at home with its cast.
Will Oldham Interviews R. Kelly
On Sam Cooke, theme parties, and the importance of McDonald’s-related jingles when street performing.
A Remote Town in Romania Becomes Cybercrime Central
A trip to Râmnicu Vâlcea, a town of 120,000 where the primary (and lucrative) industry is Internet scams.
