Muhammad Comes to Manhattan

The imbroglio over the ground-zero mosque, like all New York stories, is about the clashing dreams of ordinary folks — and, of course, real estate. #Sept11

Published: Aug 22, 2010
Length: 21 minutes (5,401 words)

The Cuomo Family Business

Andrew Cuomo was his father’s id, aggressive where Mario was cerebral—the muscle that helped win Mario three terms as governor of New York. Now he looks like he’s about to take over his father’s old job. Has he learned enough from both of their mistakes?

Published: Aug 1, 2010
Length: 25 minutes (6,364 words)

The James Franco Project

Movie star, conceptual artist, fiction writer, grad student, cipher—he’s turned a Hollywood career into an elaborate piece of performance art. But does it mean anything? A critical investigation, with bathroom break.

Published: Jul 25, 2010
Length: 22 minutes (5,706 words)

All Joy and No Fun

Why parents hate parenting.

Published: Jul 4, 2010
Length: 20 minutes (5,020 words)

Bernie Madoff, Free at Last

In prison he doesn’t have to hide his lack of conscience. In fact, he’s a hero for it.

Published: Jun 6, 2010
Length: 19 minutes (4,954 words)

The Leap

[Not single-page] Next week, Teddy Graubard would have graduated from Dalton — a brilliant teenager, with a mild form of Asperger’s, whose path seemed almost limitless. So what led him to the window?

Published: May 30, 2010
Length: 27 minutes (6,796 words)

Joan Rivers Always Knew She Was Funny

It’s the rest of the world that sometimes forgot. “Expect nothing and you won’t be disappointed. This is the mantra of the pessimist and the persecuted alike, the preemptive strike of those who tend to paint the picture a little blacker than it is. And then there is Joan Rivers, the orneriest creature ever to darken Hollywood’s door. She once told me that her husband, Edgar Rosenberg, who killed himself in 1987, lived by the heartwarming motto ‘Fuck them over before they fuck you over first.'”

Published: May 23, 2010
Length: 26 minutes (6,656 words)

Obama Is From Mars, Wall Street Is From Venus

[Not single-page] Psychoanalyzing one of America’s most dysfunctional relationships.

Published: May 22, 2010
Length: 25 minutes (6,437 words)

Boss Kelly

The long-serving NYPD commissioner is autocratic, dismissive of civil-liberties concerns — and effective. Is that a reasonable trade-off to keep the city safe?

Published: May 16, 2010
Length: 25 minutes (6,458 words)

Uniqlones

[Not single-page] Seemingly out of nowhere, their cheap, skinny rainbow-colored basics became a kind of New York uniform. Just how did the Japanese discount brand become the hottest retailer in the city?

Published: May 9, 2010
Length: 17 minutes (4,486 words)