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.
The Samantha Power Doctrine
Can UN Ambassador Samantha Power reconcile her ardent human-rights interventionism with the pragmatism necessary to guide American policy?
The Plus Side
The New Yorker’s Lizzie Widdicombe on the rapidly evolving full-figured fashion industry, and its place in the fashion world at large.
