In Conversation: Nancy Meyers

The filmmaker on women in Hollywood, and why there’s no romance in her new film.

Published: Sep 11, 2015
Length: 23 minutes (5,759 words)

The Story of Graywolf Press

How a tiny press based out of Minnesota became a major player in the book publishing world.

Published: Aug 31, 2015
Length: 7 minutes (1,800 words)

Slender Man Is Watching

Two 12-year-old girls stabbed their friend for a fictional internet horror creature named Slender Man. Miller goes through court files to try to understand why.

Published: Aug 25, 2015
Length: 23 minutes (5,990 words)

The Heirs

Ochs-Sulzberger family politics. Three heirs are being considered to be the next publisher of The New York Times. Two work on the editorial side of the paper, while one has focused on business.

Published: Aug 23, 2015
Length: 19 minutes (4,978 words)

Best of Enemies

Will intellectual combat ever top the televised 1968 debates between Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley? New York Magazine‘s Jim Holt thinks not.

Author: Jim Holt
Published: Jul 26, 2015
Length: 10 minutes (2,710 words)

Everybody Sucks

Vanessa Grigoriadis’s 2007 feature on Gawker Media, and “the rage of the creative underclass.”

Published: Oct 14, 2007
Length: 25 minutes (6,356 words)

‘I’m No Longer Afraid’: 35 Bill Cosby Accusers Tell Their Stories

A photo shoot, and testimonials, from 35 of the women who have accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault.

Published: Jul 26, 2015

Warhol’s Children

A 2007 profile of the late New York artist Dash Snow and his downtown crew.

Author: Ariel Levy
Published: Nov 25, 2007
Length: 12 minutes (3,231 words)

The Hard Truths of Ta-Nehisi Coates

A profile of Coates, whose book, Between the World and Me, has been hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading” and given him a comparison to James Baldwin. Coates has made a name for himself by pointing out how structural racism and white supremacy continues to pervade in the U.S. today.

Published: Jul 12, 2015
Length: 22 minutes (5,590 words)

The Lesbian Bride’s Handbook

Ariel Levy on her discomfort with the idea a “real” wedding, and the experience of planning her own.

Author: Ariel Levy
Published: Oct 24, 2007
Length: 16 minutes (4,150 words)