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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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The Real Story of South Florida Rapper XXXTentacion
His rise to the top of the Billboard charts coincides with a list of criminal charges, including domestic battery by strangulation, false imprisonment, and aggravated battery of a pregnant woman.
The Murder of Preston Porter Jr. and Colorado's Grim History of Lynchings
The story of a lynching in rural CO in 1900, while hundreds watched, done with the complicity of press and cops, and why it still resonates today.
The Weird, Scary and Ingenious Brain of Maria Bamford
A profile of “America’s most vulnerable comedian.”
The Upside of Trauma
What good can come of tragedy.
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.
Rural Minorities Ponder The American Dream From The Bottom Rung Of The Economic Ladder
On the country’s poorest.
The Call of the Drums
A journey to explore the rising authoritarianism in Hungary and its weirdest fringe: the people who believe they’ve descended from Attila the Hun.
The True Story of the Fake Zombies, the Strangest Con in Rock History
When the music was real, but the bands were fake.
The Art of the Smear
A journalist on the troll who tried to destroy her.
The Plastinarium of Dr. von Hagens
The man behind the Body Worlds exhibit faces his own death.
The Life and Death (and Life?) of the Party
The plot to turn Texas blue.
The Other Side of the Face
Thoughts on necks.
A Fortune at the Top of the World
There’s still a gold rush on in the Andes.
