Marc Jacobs’s Brazilian Bombshell

At home, work, and play with Lorenzo Martone, the first husband of fashion.

Author: Tim Murphy
Published: Feb 14, 2010
Length: 16 minutes (4,174 words)

The Red Carpet Campaign

[Not single-page] Inside the singular hysteria of the Academy Awards race.

Published: Feb 7, 2010
Length: 29 minutes (7,354 words)

The Junior Meritocracy

Should a child’s fate be sealed by an exam he takes at the age of 4? Why kindergarten-admission tests are worthless, at best.

Published: Jan 31, 2010
Length: 21 minutes (5,486 words)

The Rise of Dog Identity Politics

[Not single-page] Dogs are increasingly rootless souls, country bumpkins in city apartments. But is a vegan pup still an animal?

Published: Jan 24, 2010
Length: 23 minutes (5,840 words)

Remembrances of the Punk Prose Poetess

Patti Smith, along with her friend Robert Mapplethorpe, lived a particular New York dream–the Chelsea Hotel, Max’s Kansas City, CBGB, superstardom–to the fullest. Now in a great new memoir, she tells it like it was.

Published: Jan 10, 2010
Length: 12 minutes (3,067 words)

Saint Elizabeth and the Ego Monster

Excerpt from “Game Change”: A candidate whose aides were prepared to block him from becoming president. A wife whose virtuous image was a mirage. A mistress with a video camera. Inside the John Edwards triangle, nothing was too crazy to be true. By John Heilemann and Mark Halperin

Published: Jan 9, 2010
Length: 33 minutes (8,260 words)

The Ferality Show

This was the decade when the bottom fell out of just about everything — including the idea of authority itself. Is it any wonder that we all started screaming at one another?

Published: Dec 6, 2009
Length: 22 minutes (5,687 words)

Obama Lost, Obama Found

How the president finds his way out of the woods.

Published: Nov 29, 2009
Length: 17 minutes (4,285 words)

Repeat Defender

After taming crime in Los Angeles, Bill Bratton has won over the skeptics who doubted his success in New York. But all he really wants is his old job back.

Published: Nov 22, 2009
Length: 16 minutes (4,244 words)

I Dream of Diane

What do you do with the grief and guilt when your wife drives the wrong way on the Taconic State Parkway with a van full of kids and a body full of alcohol, and ends up in a crash that kills eight? You put her in a shrine.

Published: Nov 15, 2009
Length: 17 minutes (4,310 words)