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The Informant

In the Washington Highlands neighborhood of Southeast DC, up against the Maryland line, everyone plays his numbers at the market at Sixth and Chesapeake. The old drunks troll for change, and kids who…
PUBLISHED: March 7, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1239 words)

Hog Wild

Ben Terris “It beats fundraising”: Rep. Dennis Ross on skinning a hog shot by NJ reporter Ben Terris. ZOLFO SPRINGS, Fla.—It’s 7:30 a.m., and already the congressman and I…
PUBLISHED: May 30, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (880 words)

The Yankee Comandante

For a moment, he was obscured by the Havana night. It was as if he were invisible, as he had been before coming to Cuba, in the midst of revolution. Then a burst of floodlights illuminated him:…
PUBLISHED: May 28, 2012
LENGTH: 85 minutes (21453 words)

Robert Caro’s Big Dig

Robert Caro in his Manhattan office. The later volumes of his L.B.J. biography have taken more years to write than it took the former president to live them. More Photos » Robert Caro…
PUBLISHED: April 12, 2012
LENGTH: 23 minutes (5873 words)

LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS

LENGTH: 49 minutes (12470 words)

New York Wheelchair Sports Camp's Crip Life

If there were ever a moment for a queer, disabled rapper with a love for pot, jokes, and revolution to be a star, the moment is now Kalyn Heffernan is 24 years old, weighs 53 pounds, and measures…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 7, 2011
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3873 words)

The lynching of Claude Neal

By Ben Montgomery, Times Staff Writer In Print: Sunday, October 23, 2011 GREENWOOD Allie Mae Neal pushed through the screen door and found a shady spot on her porch where the summer sun didn't…
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6578 words)

What We Lost When We Lost Barbara Jean

This is the truth.Around noon I gulped a shot of tequila and then placed a chair in my closet, sat down, shut the door and put my .22 rifle in my mouth. It didnt fit well. The scope got in the…
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2590 words)

The Curse of Reality TV

Published August 26, 2011By Andy Dehnart/Illustration by Cristela Tschumy From the first days of reality TVnarrative, character-driven storytelling that…
LENGTH: 23 minutes (5790 words)
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