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Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower and Going Clear, is a staff writer for The New Yorker.
"If I had the chance to interview Osama Bin Laden, should I kill him? It’s a fair question. Suppose we’re having dinner — should I stab him with the bread knife? Do I have a moral obligation to kill him? Or do I have a moral obligation as a reporter to simply hear him?"
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Lawrence Wright is an author, screenwriter, playwright, and a staff writer for The New Yorker.
”There’s nothing more important about a person than their story. In a way, that’s who we are. And yet, memories fade and people die. So those stories disappear and the job of the journalist is to go out before that happens and accumulate the kinds of stories that are going to help us understand who we are, why we are, where we are right now in time, and try to thread those stories into a coherent narrative. In a way, you give it a kind of immortality. And that’s a big job. It’s a great privilege.”
How to photograph Los Angeles from a helicopter.
The mysterious death of Alfred Wright in the shadow of a town’s history of racial violence.
The art of the voiceover.
A profile of the internet’s poet, Patricia Lockwood.
Investigating the unsolved murder of a former NBA player.
What happened to the group of bright college students who fell under the sway of a classmate’s father?
How Hollywood falls for actresses who “act like a dude but look like a supermodel” – and then changes its mind.
How a convicted sexual predator emptied the bank accounts and ruined the lives of several women from behind bars.
In 1993 a black teenager in London was randomly stabbed to death by a gang of white youths. Twenty years later, they would be at the center of the trial of the decade.
Wright Thompson is a senior writer for ESPN. His new book is Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last.
“If you’re going to write a profile of someone … you have to find some piece of common ground with them so that no matter how famous or good or noble or bad—or no matter how cartoonish their most well-known attributes are—it shrinks them. And once they’re small enough to fit in your hand, I think it changes the entire experience of asking questions about their lives.”
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A long-dormant police investigation gives the case new life.
A profile of the Final Exit Network’s former medical director:
In those final seconds before his patients lose consciousness and die, the words they utter sound like Donald Duck, he says, imitating the high-pitched, nasally squeak familiar to any child who has sucked a gulp from a helium balloon. So, this is how a human being can leave this Earth? Sounding like Donald Duck?
Bradley Hope and Tom Wright are former journalists at The Wall Street Journal, the co-founders of journalism studio Project Brazen, and the co-authors of the book Billion Dollar Whale.
Their new podcast is Corinna and The King. Hope’s new book is “The Rebel and the Kingdom.”
“We’re a little bit skeptical of just jumping into the big story of the day with something that doesn’t feel differentiated. It needs to have character, storytelling—it can’t just be a great topic, or an important topic, even.”
Evan Wright, a two-time National Magazine Award winner, is the author of Generation Kill.
"When people were killed, civilians especially, I realized I was the only person there who would write it down. I was frantic about getting names, and in the book there are a few Arabic names, some of the victims. Not that anyone cares. But I thought, 'At least somewhere there's a record of this.'"
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Mormonism’s past and present.
Feeling abandoned by America, families fight to save their children from ISIS.
The unintended consequences of American funding in Pakistan.
What a state can teach us about a nation.
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On dissident filmmakers in Syria.
The mistakes and the struggles behind America’s coronavirus tragedy.
A profile of Ayman al-Zawahri, the Egyptian doctor who became Bin Laden’s #2 and has now taken over Al-Qaeda.
During his 35 years as a member of the Church of Scientology, Oscar-winning writer and director Paul Haggis went “all the way to the top.” The story of why he left, and what happened once he did.
