Our favorite stories of the week, featuring The New York Times Magazine, Heather Matarazzo, The New Yorker, Boston Review, and Literary Hub
Levi Strauss may have invented jeans, but yoga pants have fundamentally changed the market. Can the company win back their customer base?
"How do you predict what evil someone is capable of?" The story of right-wing extremists, and the undercover cops who busted them.
A 2014 Pulitzer Prize finalist by Sarah Schweitzer about the quest to save a North Atlantic right whale. The whales' numbers are dwindling from deaths due to getting ensnared in fishing ropes.
How a former heroin addict turned public health advocate uses the internet to save lives.
Like the victims whose stories they tell, reporters who cover rape will often face considerable challenges to their credibility. CJR looks at how Jon Krakauer reported his new book "Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town," in the context of other reporting on rape.
Jill Lepore searches for the longest book ever written.
A 2007 profile of the late New York artist Dash Snow and his downtown crew.
Maggie Nelson blends memoir and critical theory to explore the meaning and limitations of language, love, and gender in this excerpt from "The Argonauts.".
Long known as the Black Beverly Hills, Los Angeles's View Park park neighborhood is a symbol of African American success. A recent effort to put the neighborhood on the National Register of Historic Places has blown up into a contentious fight, with some residents seeing the designation as a ploy to lure white buyers.