Here are some of my favorite magazine and newspaper stories on money, politics, music, crime, writing, celebrity and a few other things:
Money
Philip Weiss:
Masters of the Universe Go to Camp
(
Spy
, 1989)
Ron Rosenbaum:
The Last Secrets of Skull and Bones
(
Esquire
, 1977)
Jessica Pressler:
Let’s, Like, Demolish Laundry
(
New York
, 2014)
Matt Levine:
The Crypto Story
(
Businessweek
, 2022)
Tom Wolfe:
The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce
(
Esquire
, 1983)
Gideon Lewis-Kraus:
Silicon Valley’s Gold Rush
(
Wired
, 2014)
Alec MacGillis:
Scandal at Clinton Inc.
(
New Republic
, 2013)
Jessica Silver-Greenberg et al.:
Epstein Hot List
(
New York Times
, 2019)
Andrew O’Hagan:
The Satoshi Affair
(
London Review of Books
, 2016)
Zach Mider:
The Greatest Tax Story Ever Told
(
Businessweek
, 2014)
Jenny Odell:
A Business With No End
(
New York Times Magazine
, 2018)
James B. Stewart:
The Birthday Party
(
New Yorker
, 2008)
Karen Weise:
The CEO Paying Everyone $70,000
(
Businessweek
, 2015)
Paige Smith:
Wall Street Makes Loans You Can’t Repay
(
Markets
, 2023)
Anna Wiener:
Uncanny Valley
(
N+1
, 2015)
Mathew Power:
Mississippi Drift
(
Harpers
, 2008)
Michael Greenberg:
Tenants Under Siege
(
New York Review
, 2017)
M.H. Miller:
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Debt to Me
(
Baffler
, 2018)
Eli Saslow:
Who’s Going to Take Care of These People
(
Post
, 2019)
Politics
Joan Didion:
Insider Baseball
(
New York Review of Books
, 1988)
Ta-Nehisi Coates:
The Case for Reparations
(
Atlantic
, 2014)
Renata Adler:
Letter from Selma
(
New Yorker
, 1965)
Ellen Willis:
Escape from New York
(
Village Voice
, 1981)
David Foster Wallace:
Host
(
Atlantic
, 2005)
Graeme Wood:
What ISIS Really Wants
(
Atlantic
, 2015)
John Sack:
M
(
Esquire
, 1966)
Mark Ames & Alex Zaitchik:
The Killer Bag Lady
(
Salon
, 2012)
Franklin Foer:
Paul Manafort, American Hustler
(
Atlantic
, 2018)
James Baldwin:
Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They’re Anti-White
(
Times
, 1967)
Music
George Trow:
Eclectic Reminiscent Amused Fickle Perverse
(NY
, 1978)
Terry Castle:
My Heroin Christmas
(
London Review of Books
, 2003)
Bryan Di Salvatore:
Ornery
(
New Yorker
, 1990)
Nick Tosches:
The Devil in George Jones
(
Texas Monthly
, 1994)
Richard Ben Cramer:
The Death of Mrs. Lee Lewis
(
Rolling Stone
, 1984)
Caity Weaver:
Justin Bieber Would Like to Reintroduce Himself
(
GQ
, 2016)
Joe Garcia:
Listening to Taylor Swift in Prison
(
New Yorker
, 2023)
Philip Gourevitch:
Mr. Brown
(
New Yorker
, 2002)
Nat Hentoff:
The Crackin’, Shakin’, Breakin’ Sounds
(
New Yorker
, 1964)
Crime
Evan Ratliff:
The Mastermind
(
Atavist
, 2016)
Emily Bazelon:
Could I Really Help Free a Prisoner?
(
NYT Magazine
, 2021)
Adrian Chen:
The Agency
(
New York Times
, 2015)
John Gregory Dunne:
The Humboldt Murders
(
New Yorker
, 1997)
Joshuah Bearman:
The Rise and Fall of Silk Road
(
Wired
, 2015)
Michael Hall:
The Murders at the Lake
(
Texas Monthly
, 2014)
Francesca Mari:
The Talented Mr. Khater
(
Texas Monthly
, 2015)
Mark Danner:
The Truth of El Mozote
(
New Yorker
, 1993)
Janet Malcolm:
Iphigenaia in Forest Hills
(
New Yorker
, 2010)
David Grann:
Trial by Fire
(
New Yorker
, 2009)
Shane Bauer:
Four Months as a Private Prison Guard
(
Mother Jones
, 2016)
Writing
Tom Scocca:
On Smarm
(
Gawker
, 2013)
Joseph Epstein:
The Sins of Leon Wieseltier
(
Weekly Standard
, 2017)
Larissa MacFarquhar:
Robert Gottlieb’s Art of Editing
(
Paris Review
, 1994)
Lillian Ross:
How Do You Like It Now, Gentlemen?
(
New Yorker
, 1950)
Lasantha Wickramatunga:
Letter
(
Sunday Times
, 2009)
Sarah Miller:
The Movie Assassin
(
Popula
, 2018)
Robert Kolker:
Who Is the Bad Art Friend?
(
Times Magazine
, 2021)
Celebrity
Ellen Barry:
The Jungle Prince of Delhi
(
New York Times
, 2019)
Michael Herr:
Kubrick
(
Vanity Fair
, 1999)
John McPhee:
A Sense of Where You Are
(
New Yorker
, 1965)
Irina Aleksander:
Lagerfeld’s Favorite Model
(
New York Times
, 2015)
Norman Mailer:
Married to Marilyn
(
New York Review of Books
, 1973)
John Updike:
Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu
(
New Yorker
, 1960)
Choire Sicha:
Ina Garten Does It Herself
(
Eater
, 2015)
More
Peter Schjeldahl:
The Art of Dying
(New Yorker, 2019)
Rachel Cavell:
Swallowing
(Adelaide, 2019)
Anna Altman:
Every Body Goes Haywire
(
N+1
, 2016)
William Styron:
Darkness Visible
(
Vanity Fair
, 1989)
John Jeremiah Sullivan:
America’s Ancient Cave Art
(
Paris Review
, 2011)
Gene Weingarten:
Peekaboo Paradox
(
Washington Post
, 2006)
Donald Barthelme:
Saved From Drowning
(
New American Review
, 1968)
Clickhole:
Whatever It Takes
(2016)
And more favorites, but not the journalistic kind, are
here
.
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