Andres Beckett dreamed of flying over the crest, down into the long dark track of the Suicide Race.
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Me and You
Two friends, Hurricane Katrina, a suicide, and the pain and beauty that holds us all together.
Posted inArts & Culture, Crime, Current Events, Essays & Criticism, Story
True Crime and the Trash Balance
True crime has a reputation for being trashy, but a recent renaissance has it tipping into advocacy.
Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Lean On
A declaration of dependence, excerpted from Briallen Hopper’s new essay collection.
Posted inBlog Post, Nonfiction
Iggy Pop’s Brand of Experience
Iconic punk progenitor Iggy Pop is touring through the US this spring, and I caught his show in Portland, Oregon last month. As a huge Iggy fan, this tour was no small deal to me. Iggy delivered. Despite new physical limitations, he gave everything his body could give, and the set list of new and […]
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Confronting the Top Brass at The New York Times About Pay Discrepancy
Jill Abramson left the New York Times’s executive editor position today and was replaced by Dean Baquet, the managing editor at the newspaper. At The New Yorker, Ken Auletta writes about what happened behind the scenes: As with any such upheaval, there’s a history behind it. Several weeks ago, I’m told, Abramson discovered that her […]
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Making the Magazine: A Reading List
27 must-read stories on the making of the world’s greatest magazines.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
Making the Magazine: A Reading List
27 must-read stories on the making of the world’s greatest magazines.
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Confessions of an Ex-Mormon
A personal history of joining, and leaving, the Mormon Church: “When I meet with the first two landlords in Beverly Hills, they’ve already seen my credit files and don’t seem to want to know much more about me other than why I’m standing on their property. At my third stop, I speak into an intercom […]
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Dealing with Julian Assange and the Secrets He Spilled
Dealing with Julian Assange and the Secrets He Spilled Criminalizing the publication of such secrets by someone who has no official obligation seems to me to run up against the First Amendment and the best traditions of this country. As one of my colleagues asks: If Assange were an understated professorial type rather than a […]
