The Professor of War

At 57, General David Petraeus has revolutionized the way America fights its wars, starting with the surge in Iraq and continuing into his current command, with responsibility for Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, and Yemen.

Source: Vanity Fair
Published: May 1, 2010
Length: 45 minutes (11,270 words)

Growing Up Gaga

[Not single-page] The self-invented, manufactured, accidental, totally on-purpose New York creation of the world’s biggest pop star.

Published: Mar 28, 2010
Length: 28 minutes (7,095 words)

No Rules!

Is Le Fooding, the French culinary movement, more than a feeling?

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Apr 5, 2010
Length: 20 minutes (5,060 words)

After 7 years at Walter Reed, Kyrgyz woman has no place to go

Author: Annys Shin
Source: Washington Post
Published: Mar 28, 2010
Length: 8 minutes (2,181 words)

Playboy Interview: Sarah Silverman

It’s a process. When you have an act that’s polished and you’re in the zone, you can’t wait to get out there. But I’m in a place where I’m backstage going, “I have fucking nothing!” I just feel like a loser. But I’ve also realized I can’t go out and keep doing the same fake racist metajokes anymore. Otherwise 30 years will go by and I’ll be the guy onstage going [imitates Andrew Dice Clay], “Hickory dickory dock!”

Source: Playboy
Published: Mar 26, 2010
Length: 24 minutes (6,158 words)

The Tiger Woods’ Bubble

The world that Tiger Woods created — golf as a lucrative sport, golf as pop culture — is deep in the rough. Can he get it back out?

Published: Mar 24, 2010
Length: 23 minutes (5,956 words)

Sometimes The Bear Eats You: Confessions of a Sportswriter

In those halcyon days there was still a lot of booze in journalism. Writers were understood to be two-fisted drinkers. You wrote a story, you wrote a chapter; then you went out and bellied up to the bar. When I was The Kid, I was regaled with tales of the sportswriter who covered for his tosspot buddy by filing a story for him; the punch line was invariably that the sober writer’s editor called him the next day and asked him why he couldn’t write as well as his rival—when, of course, he had written the rival’s story himself.

Published: Mar 29, 2010
Length: 23 minutes (5,956 words)

Dead Wrestler Of The Week: André The Giant

Source: Deadspin
Published: Mar 23, 2010
Length: 17 minutes (4,490 words)

After the Fort Hood shootings, a Muslim American soldier battles on friendly ground

Source: Washington Post
Published: Mar 24, 2010
Length: 11 minutes (2,995 words)

My First New York

In a cover feature last spring, New York Magazine invited 30 notable New Yorkers to share their memories (mostly fond, some harrowing) of arriving to town. Next week, Ecco/HarperCollins will publish “My First New York,” a greatly expanded collection. Here, from the book, are a few new entries—the early adventures of three writers — plus an actress, an editor, and a famous former call girl — in the big city.

Published: Mar 21, 2010
Length: 20 minutes (5,031 words)