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An Amazon Problem: The Book Is Dead, Long Live the Book

It's quite a drama, practically tailor-made for a TV miniseries with at least seven episodes. The main character is the beautiful publisher who takes over the business when her husband dies, and…
PUBLISHED: March 15, 2013
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1717 words)

Requiem for a Dream

“This, I suppose, is the actual problem,” Swartz wrote, long before his suicide. “I feel my existence is an imposition on the planet.” Illustration by Michael Gillette.
PUBLISHED: March 11, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1019 words)
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The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food

On the evening of April 8, 1999, a long line of Town Cars and taxis pulled up to the Minneapolis headquarters of Pillsbury and discharged 11 men who controlled America’s largest food…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 20, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (762 words)

The Man Who Killed Osama bin Laden... Is Screwed

Published in the March 2013 issue Phil Bronstein is the former editor of the San Francisco Chronicle and currently serves as executive chairman of the Center for Investigative Reporting. This piece…
LENGTH: 60 minutes (15039 words)

Capote Classic 'In Cold Blood' Tainted by Long-Lost Files

Truman Capote, center, with Harper Lee and Alvin Dewey in 1966 GARDEN CITY, Kan.—Truman Capote's masterwork of murder, "In Cold Blood," cemented two reputations when first published almost…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 8, 2013
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2767 words)

Why Can Some Kids Handle Pressure While Others Fall Apart?

Students at Shaker Heights High School in Shaker Heights, Ohio, on Jan. 25, the day before they took the SAT or SAT math subject test. Clockwise from top left: Elana Ross, Linda Fan, Aryanna Jones, …
PUBLISHED: Feb. 6, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (871 words)

Clinging to Youth, at a Cost

Graduates of River City High School in West Sacramento, Calif., before a game against Casa Roble High alumni this month. Chad Harrell is a lean and muscular quarterback, but he is also a 43-year-old…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 19, 2013
LENGTH: 2 minutes (636 words)

Bones of Contention

Eric Prokopi, of Gainesville, in the five-thousand-square-foot fossil workshop that he built in his back yard. Photograph by Richard Barnes.
PUBLISHED: Jan. 28, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (971 words)

General Principles

“The rucksack of responsibility is very heavy,” Petraeus told troops. In Iraq and Afghanistan, how well he carried it is open to debate. Illustration by Stanley Chow.
PUBLISHED: Dec. 17, 2012
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1118 words)
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