Fiction Pick of the Week: "Reflections on Villaplane"
A French soccer star’s rise and fall from sports to cons to the Nazi Party.
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The Price of Black Ambition
“I am having a moment, but I only want more. I need more. I cannot merely be good enough because I am chased by the pernicious whispers that I might only be ‘good enough for a black woman.’”
The Spy Who Loved Us
On Pham Xuan An, Time’s Saigon correspondent during the Vietnam War, who led a double life as an intelligence agent for Ho Chi Minh.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Headstrong Historian"
A mother defends her family lineage against disruption from envious cousins.
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The Unpunished Killing of Joe Henson
Forty years ago, a man was killed in Chicago because he was black. The daughter he never met is still searching for clues about his death.
The Road to Damascus
While a Marine stationed in Afghanistan, Austin Tice decided he wanted to become a war photographer. He entered Syria and filed stories for McClatchy and the Washington Post. Then he disappeared.
The Ponzi State
“Florida, in some ways, resembles a modern Ponzi scheme. Everything is fine for me if a thousand newcomers come tomorrow. The problem is…no one knew what would happen if they stopped coming.”
Where in the Hell Is Our Cat?
Carol, who was out for a walk one afternoon, saw me marching around and shouted across the street: “YOU SURE WANT TO FIND THAT CAT!”
“YES,” I yelled back. “I SURE DO.”
How Cities Make Money by Fining the Poor
In many parts of America, like Corinth, Miss., judges are locking up defendants who can’t pay—sometimes for months at a time.
The Master of Spin
A profile of the PR agent who blurs truth for clients like Harvey Weinstein and R. Kelly. “If it were a relationship, we’d call it gaslighting, but it’s a profession, so we call it PR.”
Tinder Lets Known Sex Offenders Use the App. It’s Not the Only One.
Match Group, which owns most major online dating services, screens for sexual predators on Match—but not on Tinder, OkCupid or Plenty of Fish. A spokesperson said, “There are definitely registered sex offenders on our free products.”
How Elizabeth Loftus Changed the Meaning of Memory
The psychologist taught us that what we remember is not fixed, but her work testifying for defendants like Harvey Weinstein collides with our traumatized moment.
When the Pandemic Came to Sullivan Prison
As one blockmate after another fell ill, we tried to stay safe and care for one another. It wasn’t always enough.
What Lies Beneath: The Secrets of France’s Top Serial Killer Expert
An intrepid expert with dozens of books to his name, Stéphane Bourgoin was a bestselling author, famous in France for having interviewed more than 70 notorious murderers. Then an anonymous collective began to investigate his past.
The Longform Guide to the Death Penalty
</h2>The voting booth, the jury box, the bench and the chair — a collection of picks on all sides of capital punishmet.
Longform Guide to the Brain
Experimental neuroscience, conjoined minds, and everlasting consciousness — a collection of picks on the human brain.
The Longform Guide to Gary Shteyngart
This guide is sponsored by Gary Shteyngart's Little Failure, the best-seller published this month by Random House. Hailed as a "memoir for the ages" by Mary Karr, Little Failure tells the story of Shteyngart's American immigrant experience, moving back and forth through time and memory with self-deprecating humor, moving insights, and literary bravado. Buy it today.</p>
Should you need further convincing, here is a collection of some of Shteyngart's best non-fiction:</em>
Welcome to the Far Eastern Conference
On former Knicks savior Stephon Marbury and his post-NBA life playing in China.
How ICE Picks Its Targets in the Surveillance Age
After two officers came to a Pacific Northwest community, longtime residents began to disappear.
"The kind of stories I've gotten to do have involved fulfilling my childhood fantasies of having an adventurous life."
We are re-airing our February 2013 interview with our friend Matt Power, who died while on assignment in Uganda, to help raise money for The Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award.
Founded by Matt's friends and family, the annual award will support promising writers early in their careers with a stipend of $12,500 to bring forward an unreported story of importance in some overlooked corner of the world.
The Longform Guide to the Music Industry
The man who made Bieber, how Nickelback cashes in, and the story of Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun—a collection of classic articles about the music industry.</p>
How Does the Art World Live With Itself?
I used to believe the art world was at war with itself, that money was fighting art and vice versa. But I’ve been living in my own ambivalence about things for a decade now, or more, and I’m starting to think it’s not a war but a new equilibrium state, defined by that ambivalence.
Inside the Insane Feud Between a Vegan Strip Club and the Steak House Strip Club Next Door
Zukle: The old guy, Bob [Polizos]—I like him, he's a nice guy. When were first getting started, he said, "I like competition." And I said, "Good, because you're gonna get it!" People go over there for $5 steak bites, then they come here for a $500 lap dance.
Polizos: I don't want them here. We are a real restaurant. They're nothing but a whorehouse!
The Deported
Kelvin Villanueva had lived in America for 15 years. He had four kids. He had a job. Then he was stopped for a broken taillight.
The Fall of the House of Moon
A history of scandal and civil war within the first family of the Unification Church.
