‘I Was Killed When I Was 27’: The Curious Afterlife of Terence Trent D’Arby
In 1987, Terence Trent D’Arby’s debut album sold a million copies in just three days, and the music press went crazy for him. There was nowhere to go but down.
Speaking in Tongues
On J.R.R. Tolkien, George R.R. Martin, and the art of invented languages.
In Search of a Separate Peace: Five Stories About Communes
What is the purpose, the lure, of communal living? Why have the residents of different communes in United States chosen isolation over convenience? In these five stories, you’ll meet men and women—many, members in the LGBTQIA+ community—who have chosen, with mixed results, to dedicate themselves to their chosen families.
A Complicated Production
‘Steve Jobs’ was no easy film to get made. Galloway chronicles the high-powered spats, threats from Jobs’s widow, and Sony hack fallout along the way.
For the Love of Duke
A West Virginia woman falls in love with a mysterious man online, then gets roped into a global scam.
Inside the Race to Stop the Next Mass Shooter
Mass murder is not an impulsive crime—so can threat assessment teams prevent it from happening?
How ESPN’s Fear Of The Truth Defeated “Black Grantland”
An argument about why ESPN’s tactic of appealing to as many people as possible ensured that a “well-funded black-interest site written and edited by blacks” could never exist within the company.
The Senior Citizens and the Jamaican Lotto Scammers
Inside the Jamaican lottery scam industry, which targets nearly 300,000 Americans a year, most of them elderly.
The Teachings of Don Carlos
Pulling back the curtain on Carlos Castaneda, one of America’s most secretive and popular authors.
The Passion of Nicki Minaj
Vanessa Grigoriadis meets the world’s biggest female rap superstar. (Love the ending to this one.)
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