Longreads

One of the few things you can be sure of in this world is that rapper-producer Dr. Dre is not finished with his third and possibly final solo album, Detox. Dre has been working on it off and on for a…

I. OCCUPY FROMMER’S The Hawaiian history that plays through headsets on the buses that shuttle tourists between the shops, hotels, restaurants, and beaches on Oahu is predictably bland, defanged, and…

A galego Moses plops down on the steps next to Luis, shivering in his toga and sandals. While he attacks the chill with a few long pulls on Juanjo's fiery young wine, the sloppy faithful gather to…

David van der Veen/AFP/Getty Images Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen (left) shaking hands with former Khmer Rouge foreign minister Ieng Sary, October 22, 1996 This spring, almost a decade after its…

Hunter S. Thompson was just 22-years-old in 1959 when he first began writing The Rum Diary, or what he initially called “the great American rum novel.” He envisioned it as something of a contemporary and rum-soaked version of The Great Gatsby, one of Thompson’s favorite books. Based on the time Thompson spent working for an English language newspaper in San Juan, Puerto Rico, The Rum Diary fictionally chronicles the drunken and debauched life of Paul Kemp, an American journalist sauntering through San Juan with a savage lust for women, blood and booze. Once finished, Thompson spent nearly a decade revising and shopping it to publishers before reverting to other projects. It wasn’t until 1998 that Thompson was finally able to publish The Rum Diary.

Malaparte: Vies et Lgendes by Maurizio Serra Paris: Grasset, 637 pp., 23.00…

Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson Grove Press, 814…

First came the dream: a society that could be both communist and freewhere men could speak and write without fear of punishment, where rewards would be based on merit rather than loyalty,…