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The Embassy of Cambodia

Illustration by Zohar Lazar. 0 - 1Who would expect the Embassy of Cambodia? Nobody. Nobody could have expected it, or be expecting
PUBLISHED: Feb. 11, 2013
LENGTH: 33 minutes (8411 words)

Transaction Man

ABSTRACT: A REPORTER AT LARGE about Mitt Romney, the Republican candidate for President, and how his political career has been shaped by his background in the Mormon faith and the worlds of…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 1, 2012
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1021 words)

Teen Titan

When Scooter Braun, the manager of Justin Bieber and a stable of other pop stars, was growing up, his favorite comic-book hero was Superman. “I liked everything he stood for,” Braun, who is…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 3, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (913 words)

J. Edgar Hoover Goes to the Movies: The FBI and the Origins of Hollywood's Cold War

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LENGTH: 8 minutes (2089 words)

Joshua Bellin on Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders

SAMUEL R. DELANY's writing confounds all expectations. As a young writer he turned out a range of gloriously pulpy science fiction, often at lightning speed; but thereafter, in a series of…
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3374 words)

The Comedian Comedians Were Afraid Of

(Photo: Melissa Hom/New York Magazine) Even comedians—who rarely shut up—had to surrender whenever Patrice O’Neal began to talk. He’s the guy they would call on the long…
PUBLISHED: May 13, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (861 words)

The Embers of April 1992 by Mike Davis

TWENTY YEARS AFTER THE SO-CALLED RODNEY KING RIOT, we can do little more than commemorate the deliberate reign of ignorance that has deflected every attempt to understand the deep causes of the…
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1915 words)

'Waiting for the Rainbow Sign' by Lynell George

Editor's note: Lynell George's essay "Waiting for the Rainbow Sign" first appeared in the LA Weekly in May 1992. It was subsequently published in her collection of essays "No Crystal Stair:…
PUBLISHED: April 22, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1738 words)
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Miami Cuban Baseball Agents: Risks and Lies

Carlos Perez parks his Mercedes sports car outside an office complex west of Coral Gables. He barks in Spanish into his ever-buzzing BlackBerry, takes the elevator to the third floor, and saunters…
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3494 words)
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