Tag: New York Times

Welcome to Warhol’s world.

Jim Acosta isn’t the first reporter to be barred from the White House—when Stuart Loory reported on the possibility that Richard Nixon was bilking taxpayers, he found himself on the president’s enemies list.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Natalie Kitroeff and Jessica Silver-Greenberg, Brendan I. Koerner, Eve Peyser, Darius Miles, and Bill Wyman.

After she proposes to her girlfriend, Amy Deneson rethinks what it means to wed.

Bradley Cooper’s new film is ultimately about the way commerce can ruin art, which is why he won’t answer the personal questions Taffy Brodesser-Akner asked him.

The highs and lows of André Leon Talley’s important, trailblazing career are traced in a new documentary about his life.

Despite what “Law & Order: CSI” tells us, blood spatter patterns don’t necessarily hold all the keys to a crime scene.

Bari Weiss, Bret Stephens, and Katie Roiphe have to try to be better, right along with the rest of us.

In a softball interview, the new publisher of the NYT downplays the rigors of the role.

The cryptocurrency gold rush has made millionaires out of those obsessed with changing the world order.

The hip-hop artist sits down for a wide-ranging interview with NYT executive editor Dean Baquet.

Ordinary details can furnish a room, they can set a table, they can fill the time between hushed meetings of planned genocide.

Recent stories exposing powerful, abusive men suggest there’s value in taking rumors seriously.

How the soul singer Sade Adu has maintained her pop cultural relevance for more than 30 years.

While playing basketball for eight years in six countries, Jackson Vroman was outgoing and personable, which is why his death in 2015 is even harder to comprehend.

W.H. Auden named it 70 years ago, and our latest age of anxiety is one of Xanax, fidget spinners, and constant swiping.

Quotas allow superiors to blame failure on subordinates and take credit for success.

The New York Times styles Manning for her first profile—but she’s already in charge of her own image.

The publisher of the New York Times announced that the position of public editor is being eliminated. We look back at its history.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Alec MacGillis, Justin Heckert, Peter Vigneron, Michael Lista, and Anthony Breznican.

Bowel-obstructed bunnies, lame ducks, and festering iguanas at Manhattan’s only exotic animal vet.

This narrative of the black family in America always been inadequate. It has never told the full story of what I know about black love.

Annie Correal’s story on the last New York wigmakers has a little bit of everything: celebrity gossip, religious scandals, and of course, wigs.

Our top stories of the week, as chosen by the editors at Longreads.

New York Times reporter Jack Healy was sitting in a diner when he received a tip about a father who had lost two of his three adult children to opioid overdoses.

She is the light in the darkness.

To celebrate the achievements of Serena Williams and Roger Federer, I’d like to share two of my favorite profiles of them.

In the two years since I compiled the first installation of “The Lives of Nuns,” Autostraddle wrote about queer nuns in history, Racked shadowed (fake) nuns growing marijuana, and The Huffington Post reported on a nun’s murder and the students who want the truth. Those stories and more are included below. Seclude yourself and read.

In 2016, I published my New Year’s resolutions on Longreads. As 2017 dawns, I thought I’d check in with my old self, dust off 2016’s goals and set some new intentions.

There are stories here about the Native-led protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline, folks standing up to Donald Trump and his white supremacist cronies, and prisoners striking against their miserable living conditions in a racist system.