My Great-Grandfather, the Nigerian Slave-Trader
Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani writes about how her family is reckoning with her Igbo great-grandfather’s work in the transatlantic slave trade.
Harvey Weinstein’s Former Employees Reckon With What They Knew and What They Didn’t
Without naming names, Dana Goodyear recounts how former employees of Harvey Weinstein are feeling since more than four dozen women have come forward with allegations against him.
Memoirs of Addiction and Ambition
Cat Marnell’s new memoir How to Murder Your Life, like Julia Phillips’ famous You’ll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again, is an extreme spectacle of women in capitalism.
The Taste Makers
The secret world of the flavor factory: the consumption of food flavorings is one of the modern era’s most profound collective acts of submission to illusion.
Venezuela, a Failing State
Once the richest country in South America, it now has the world’s highest inflation rate and is plagued by hunger and violent crime. How did this happen?
When Vine Was Hollywood’s Future
Twitter just decided to discontinue its six-second-video app. This is a dramatic end for a platform that launched numerous viral hits and entertainment careers.
Lessons From My Father
Joe McGinnis, Jr. reflects on his father, writer Joe McGinnis — his cheating, his drinking, his illness, his madness, his death, and his legacy.
Iceland’s Historic Candidate
How a historian of Iceland’s quirky politics became the country’s new president.
The Shadow Doctors
An underground network of medical workers and trauma surgeons in Syria, led by David Nott, aims to spread medical knowledge as the Syrian government strives to eradicate it.
The Disappeared
A Guardian investigation reveals that Chicago police kept a secret interrogation site where abuses occurred, including at least one detainee death.
