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PUBLISHED: June 18, 2013

Revenge, ego, and the corruption of Wikipedia

In the wee hours of the morning of January 27, 2013, a Wikipedia editor named “Qworty” made a series of 14 separate edits to the Wikipedia page for the late writer Barry Hannah, a well-regarded…
PUBLISHED: May 17, 2013
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5121 words)

Stranded on the Roof of the World

The khan dreams of a car. Never mind that there isn’t a road. His father, the previous khan, spent his life lobbying for a road. The new khan does the same. A road, he argues, would permit…
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4038 words)

Boom Times

Bring it! Scott Hunt on his prepper property in South Carolina. Photo: Brian Finke BEING PREPARED is just the sensible thing to do, Scott Hunt tells me. Power outage? Superstorm? Nuclear attack?…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 1, 2012
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2990 words)

The Terrazzo Jungle

Victor Gruen was short, stout, and unstoppable, with a wild head of hair and eyebrows like unpruned hedgerows. According to a profile in Fortune (and people loved to profile Victor Gruen), he was a…
PUBLISHED: March 15, 2004
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5660 words)

Lingerie Boutiques in Paris: Paris Underneath it All

What is it about French women that makes them so maddening? Not all of them, of course, but the ones—and I’ve known many—who linger in your memory. It’s hard to pin down,…
LENGTH: 3 minutes (909 words)

Bully Pulpit

ABSTRACT: LETTER FROM TUPELO about evangelical radio talk-show host Bryan Fischer. Fischer, who hosts “Focal Point,” a popular Christian radio talk show, is one of the country’s…
AUTHOR:Jane Mayer
PUBLISHED: June 18, 2012
LENGTH: 1 minutes (422 words)

Gin and Tonic, A Love Story

The first time I drank a gin tonic, a real gin tonic, it was three in the morning in an old converted castle in the tiny town of La Alberca, outside Salamanca, not more than 40 miles from the…
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1898 words)
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Paradise Lost

Talk | By JOYCE MAYNARD | May 14, 2012 Thirty-eight years ago, when I was 20 and traveling in Central America recovering from a broken heart, I met a middle-age American couple who invited me to come…
PUBLISHED: May 14, 2012
LENGTH: 2 minutes (702 words)
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