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When My Crazy Father Actually Lost His Mind

Joseph Interlandi, right, with his daughter Nicole and his son, Joseph Jr. We were on something like the 15th round of rummy, and my father was winning decisively. He cracked a wide, toothy grin as…
PUBLISHED: June 22, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (919 words)

Paying To Play: Interview With A John

To use a tennis analogy, I played all four corners in an attempt to interview clients. I hit up escort friends of mine with long-terms regulars, old clients who were articulate and thoughtful and…
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4653 words)

Weekend Reading: Incompetence and Innocence

Last week, we started the column Weekend Reading, which will include some New Yorker editor’s favorite long-form magazine journalism from the past week. Many of the choices come from following…
PUBLISHED: May 18, 2012
LENGTH: 1 minutes (423 words)

why marriage is a declining option for modern women

In 2001, when I was 28, I broke up with my boyfriend. Allan and I had been together for three years, and there was no good reason to end things. He was (and remains) an exceptional person,…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 27, 2011
LENGTH: 21 minutes (5259 words)

the mobster who shopped his dad

It was a tattoo that almost got Frank Calabrese killed. He'd had it etched across his back while he was in Milan prison in Michigan: a large map of America over which prison bars have been…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 25, 2011
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3010 words)

Autism's early child

In a sunlit garden in Dorset, a middle-aged man is looking at photographs of his life. He pauses on a family group beside a caravan, a faded black-and-white snap stained with streaks of tea,…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 13, 2011
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3488 words)

The Second Second Date Story

So the way my father used to tell it, my parents second date went something like this: My father was positively smitten after his blind date with my mother, and wanting to spend as much time with…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 6, 2011
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1861 words)

Joy vanished into Britain's child-sex trade

On the morning of 15 March Joy Vincent left Croydon's Gilroy Court Hotel, and then she disappeared. No one knows what happened next: whom she met, where she was taken, whether she even went…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 16, 2011
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3703 words)

Scott of the Antarctic: the lies that doomed his race to the pole

On 12 November 1912, a party of British explorers was crossing the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica when one of the team, Charles Wright, noticed "a small object projecting above the surface". He…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 24, 2011
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3381 words)
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