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A story by Emma Smith-Stevens, originally published in Subtropics, Spring/Summer 2015.
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A story by Carissa Halston, originally published, in different form, by Little Fiction.
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Sally Quinn • Washington Post • August 1974
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Wil S. Hylton • September 2016
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"They cruise the city in chauffeured cars, blasting rap, selling pot to classmates. How some of New York's richest kids joined forces with some of its poorest."
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Sixty years later, a dishonorably discharged World War I veteran makes one final appeal.
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A legend is growing in Nepal, where people say a meditating boy hasn't eaten or drunk in seven months. He barely moves, just sits under a tree, still as a stone. It's impossible, some say. Is it a miracle? A hoax? Let's find out.
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Terry Southern • Esquire • Feb 1963
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Chris Radant • Boston Phoenix • Nov 1990
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Calvin Stanley is a fourth-grader at Cross Country Elementary School. He rides a bike, watches TV, plays video games and does just about everying other 10-year-old boys do. Except see.
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Back during the Harlem Renaissance, he swept the lindy hop of its feet and transformed big-band dance. More than sixty years later, Frankie Manning got a renaissance of his own.
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by Alex Perry
Published January 19, 2016
In 1975, the grisly double murder of a 24-year-old woman and her young daughter turned a small Colorado town on its head. For the two inexperienced detectives assigned to the case, it was a chance to prove their mettle. But what happens when everyone is suspect and nobody is guilty?
by Alex French
Published January 19, 2016
Gay Talese • Esquire • July 1963
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Ron Rosenbaum • Esquire • Sep 1977
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Buzz Bissinger • Sports Illustrated • Sept 1990
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She has stood toe-to-toe with imperial CEOs, exposed major frauds, and played some serious bridge with Buffett. Now our intrepid reporter takes on her toughest subject yet.
Carol Loomis • Sep 2005
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Gus Garcia-Roberts • The Miami New Times • April 2010
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Renata Adler • New Yorker • Feb 1967
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Stephan Faris • Deca
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Mujib Mashal • Harper's • Jan 2014
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Wil S. Hylton • February 2015
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Who was behind the Moscow apartment bombings that accelerated Vladimir Putin's rise to power?
Scott Anderson • GQ • Sep 2009
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Michael Paterniti
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Matthew Power
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<p> It was the spring of 1987, and crack cocaine had turned whole swaths of Detroit into veritable combat zones. The city thought it had seen everything—until one evening that May, when the police arrested a 17-year-old kid named Rick Wershe.</p> <p> They called him White Boy Rick. In a city known for its fraught racial divide, Wershe had somehow joined the ranks of the drug kingpins on the predominantly black East Side before he was old enough to shave. He flew in kilos of cocaine from Miami and drove a white Jeep with THE SNOWMAN emblazoned across the back. An incredulous judge once compared him to the gangster “Baby Face” Nelson. He seemed more an urban legend than a real person—and then his story got even stranger. Years later, while he was in prison for cocaine possession, Wershe claimed he had been working with the FBI since he was 14. Was one of Detroit’s most notorious criminals also one of the feds’ most valuable informants in the city?</p> <p> Journalist Evan Hughes set out to untangle fact from fiction in Wershe’s improbable story, tracking down the dealers, cops, and federal agents who shared the streets with him and eventually meeting Wershe himself at the rural Michigan prison where he remains incarcerated. <em>The Trials of White Boy Rick</em> is a gripping true-crime saga of hidden motives and betrayed trust—and reveals never-before-reported information suggesting why Wershe is still behind bars.</p> <p> September 2014</p>
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<p data-atavist-id="at53e12e91f03ae"> It's 6:20pm. The field drifts up towards us slowly and noiselessly. Twisting the burner toggle one last time, Sir Richard Branson looks back over his shoulder, grinning his famous grin. "Bend your knees," he says cheerily, "in case I fuck this up."<br /> </p> <p data-atavist-id="at53e12e91f04ad"> Suddenly, the tiny wicker basket clatters into a 5ft-deep sea of crops and pitches over on to its side at an alarming angle. The air is filled with the smell of fresh runner beans, and there is a bump as we finally find the earth. The balloon is caught for a silent second by the chaos of broken vegetation. And then, as suddenly as it arrived, the balloon bounces free again, and, picked up by the wind, drifts away over Oxfordshire. </p>
Published July 30, 2013
<p>Episode 10: Evan Ratliff interviews Chris Jones before a live audience in Bucharest, hosted by the Romanian magazine <em>Decât o Revistă</em>.</p>
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<p>Episode 38: Ted Conover, author of five books and the recent <em>Harper’s</em> article “The Way of All Flesh.”</p>