This week we’re sharing stories from Jennifer Senior, Danyel Smith, Christopher Mathias, Mitchell Consky, and Tamara Saade.
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Ant Geopolitics
“Over the past four centuries quadrillions of ants have created a strange and turbulent global society that shadows our own.”
‘You’ve Blown a Hole in the Family’: Inside the Murdochs’ Succession Drama
“More than 3,000 pages of documents reveal how years of betrayals led to a messy court battle that threatens the future of Rupert’s empire.”
The $30 Million Lottery Scam
“But he did let slip that he’d kept his lottery charts and spreadsheets—and that he still believed his system worked.”
A Double Life: The Cocaine Kingpin Who Hid as a Professional Soccer Player
“Marset is the first major drug trafficker to use his status and wealth not only to bankroll professional soccer teams but to play on them.”
Who am I to Diss a Brie?
“Plenty of people are looking for stilton, and some have more than a snack on their mind.”
Coming to Terms with Going Home
There are few places I can think of more melancholy than the streets of my hometown late at night.
Writing Through It (and the Week’s Top 5)
“I don’t get creatively unstuck. I just write despite the fact that I’m stuck. I learned a long time ago that being ‘stuck’ is really just the unshakable belief that everything you can think of writing is shit, and while that may be true, it might also not be, and the biggest predictor of whether […]
Aymann Ismail Speaks and an Atavist Excerpt
Aymann Ismail answers our questionnaire and an excerpt of The Atavist‘s latest story.


