“An exhausted America turns two hundred and fifty.”
Peter Rubin
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Sam Bankman-Fried’s Prison Experiment
“His life behind bars and his desperate campaign to get free.”
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The Troubling Disappearance of ‘El Gallito’
“A Rio Grande Valley murder case was botched and evidence lost by local police and by Texas Rangers. Will anyone ever be held responsible?”
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Submitting to the Beast
“A father and son in New Orleans—feasting and flaneuring.”
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Are Memories Transferable — or Edible?
“In the 1960s, worm-training experiments and their strange implications captivated the nation.”
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How Three Chess Friends Battled Demons and Saved Two Lives
“A homeless chess hustler, a scholar and an aging recluse found hope in a trashed apartment by Central Park.”
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Grate Expectations: The Troubled Quest for Tasty Vegan Cheese
“The plant-based boom failed to deliver. But there may yet be hope.”
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The Man Who Reads Books For a Living (One Every Two Days)
“Clarke Seicher is something much more specific and much rarer: a professional book reader who evaluates literature specifically for screen adaptation.”
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The Prehistory of A.I. Slop
“Before ChatGPT, there was the Plot Robot, Auto-Beatnik, and a century’s worth of schemes for automating authorship.”