The Secret History of Boeing’s Killer Drone
The bitter rivalry within the aerospace industry to produce unmanned combat aircrafts.
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The Garrison Commission On the Assassination of President Kennedy
An ex-spook takes on the Warren Commission.
The Making of a Narco State
Following the money and the opium in Afghanistan.
The Siege of September 13
Inside the attack on the U.S. embassy in Kabul.
The Fall of the Creative Class
The case against Richard Florida.
The Rise of the Tao
On the religious revival underway in China.
The Divine Inspiration of Jim Jones
The black messianic leader, known as Father Divine, that Jim Jones admired.
The Curse of the Bahia Emerald
Meet the giant green rock that seduces and destroys.
The End of Independent Film as We Know It
How Netflix and Amazon upended the movie business.
King of the Ride
On the road with the world’s greatest hitchhiker.
The Last Ride of the Polo Shirt Bandit
The most prolific bank robber in Texas history.
The Barbaric History of Sugar in America
On the “white gold” that fueled slavery.
The Red-Pilling of Kitson
The boutique that defined early-aughts L.A. style has taken an unexpected turn.
The Life and Times of Rusty Warren
The life and times of female comedy LP sensation Rusty Warren, whose bawdy hits like ‘Knockers Up’ commanded the charts and the lounges of the 1960s Midwest.
The Kingdom of Silence
The story of three months spent training reporters in Saudi Arabia, where the press is far from free. “I suspected that behind the closed gates of Saudi society there was a social revolution in the making. With some guidance, I thought, these journalists could help inspire change.”
Outcasts: Inmates of the Black Eagle
Russia has ended its death penalty, leaving in its place five prison “colonies” to house its most hardened criminals, nicknamed “The White Swan”, “The Black Dolphin”, “The Vologda Coin”, “The Village of Harps”. Inside “The Black Eagle.”
Inside the Fall of the CDC
How the world’s greatest public health organization was brought to its knees by a virus, the president and the capitulation of its own leaders, causing damage that could last much longer than the coronavirus.
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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Portrait of the Consummate Con Man
“On a small scale, Titanic Thompson is an American legend. I say on a small scale, because an overpowering majority of the public has never heard of him. That is the way Titanic likes it. He is a professional gambler. He has sometimes been called the gambler’s gambler.”
The Secret Life of Max Stern
The Nazis stole his family’s paintings, but Max Stern escaped and became one of Canada’s leading art dealers. Now, 20 after his death, he is changing the rules of restitution.
The Certainty of Donald Rumsfeld
“Unfortunately, after having spent 33 hours over the course of a year interviewing Mr. Rumsfeld, I fear I know less about the origins of the Iraq war than when I started.”
The Aftershocks of a Tea-Party Suicide
How a bid to unseat Senator Thad Cochran led to an illegal photo in a nursing home, a flurry of arrests, and the death of the man who brought the Tea Party to Mississippi.
How a New Technology Is Changing the Lives of People Who Cannot Speak
The same “Stephen Hawking voice” is used by little girls, old men, and people of every racial and ethnic background. Inside the quest to give people a voice of their own.
Heaven Can Wait: The Hidden Genius of Elaine May
A profile of Elaine May, one the most important figures in American pop cultural history—and one of the most hidden.
Out of Thin Air: The Mystery of the Man Who Fell From the Sky
In 2019, the body of a man fell from a passenger plane into a garden in south London. Who was he?
