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The Secret of Grey Gardens
A tale of wealth and rebellion in East Hampton.
The Pinup of Williamsburg
A profile of Zooey Deschanel.
King of the Cosmos
A profile of celebrity astrophysicist Neil Tyson.
The Teachings of Speaker Gingrich
Reviewing Newt Gingrich as historian and intellectual.
The Brotherhood of Recovering Addicts
Life inside a pair of small-town boarding houses.
Last Christmas of the War
December 1944, Auschwitz.
The End of Sand
It’s one of our most in-demand natural resources, and it’s running out.
Liu Cixin’s War of the Worlds
A leading sci-fi writer takes stock of China’s global rise.
The Subversive Joy of Lil Nas X's Gay Pop Stardom
A profile of a new icon.
Elif Batuman is a novelist and a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her latest article is “Japan’s Rent-a-Family Industry.”
“I hear novelists say things sometimes like the character does something they don’t expect. It’s like talking to people who have done ayahuasca or belong to some cult. That’s how I felt about it until extremely recently. All of these people have drunk some kind of Kool Aid where they’re like, ‘I’m in this trippy zone where characters are doing things.’ And I would think to myself, if they were men—Wow, this person has devised this really ingenious way to avoid self-knowledge. If they were women, I would think—Wow, this woman has found an ingenious way to become complicit in her own bullying and silencing. It’s only kind of recently—and with a lot of therapy actually—that I’ve come to see that there is a mode of fiction that I can imagine participating in where, once I’ve freed myself of a certain amount of stuff I feel like I have to write about, which has gotten quite large by this point, it would be fun to make things up and play around.”
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The Real Education of Little Tree
The story of Asa Earl Carter, aka Forrest Carter, the best-selling author of The Education of Little Tree, an autobiographical novel about “communion with nature and love of one’s fellow man.” He was also a Klansman, penning the famous George Wallace line, “Segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever!”
The True Story of the Fake Zombies, the Strangest Con in Rock History
When the music was real, but the bands were fake.
The Mental Life of Plants and Worms, Among Others
Do jellyfish have minds?
The Price of a Stolen Childhood
Calculating restitution for victims of child pornography.
The Adventures of Super Boy
An early profile of Justin Beiber.
The Percentages: A Biography of Class
A personal history of class in America.
A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to 2100
A story of boom and bust.
The Land of GoBots, Pound Puppies, and Care Bears
How Minnesota became a hotbed of toy invention.
The Professor of Micropopularity
A profile of Focus Features CEO James Schamus.
The Counterfeit Queen of Soul
A strange and bittersweet ballad of kidnapping, stolen identity and unlikely stardom.
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When Measles Arrives: Breaking Down the Anatomy of Containment
Anatomy of an outbreak.
The Reigning Queen of Pandemic Yoga
A profile of YouTube yogi Adriene Mishler
The Art of the Smear
A journalist on the troll who tried to destroy her.
