A timely and revealing update of some of the most groundbreaking narrative journalism ever published
Published in 1992, Richard Ben Cramer’s book What It Takes remains the richest and most detailed acc
In Raymond Carver’s masterful short stories, what goes unspoken between characters—what can’t or won
Before anyone foresaw a time when a television celebrity could become president—hello, Cleveland—Nor
For two decades, the Four Seasons was the epicenter of culture in America. Jackie Onassis, Henry Kis
In 2001, director Michael Bay was one of Hollywood’s most successful commercial filmmakers whe
Norman Maclean published A River Runs Through It when he was seventy-three, and only after his child
It’s hard to find a profession more maligned than the paparazzi, but in 1998 Esquire writer at large
In March 2013, the man who shot and killed Osama bin Laden came forward to tell his story for the fi
The question is astonishingly simple: In the year 2015, with GPS and satellites and global surveilla
Richard Ben Cramer’s masterful profile of Ted Williams from 1986 is often cited as one of the greate
We will all get old one day. Mike Sager’s astonishingly intimate portrait of Glenn Sandberg, age nin
David Foster Wallace’s unforgettable portrait of tennis player Michael Joyce is as much about the in
In 1992, writer Susan Orlean was tired of celebrity profiles. Instead, she wanted to do something bi
Published in 1991, Richard Ben Cramer’s book What It Takes remains the richest and most unvarnished
“It was the moment we were waiting for and the moment we dreaded.” So begins “The Death of Patient Z
It was a meeting of two American masters: Robert Noyce, who, in inventing the integrated computer ch
In 1968, just hours after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, the legendary historian and Pulit
“Oh my God—we hit a little girl.” This was the single, shocking cover line of the October 1966 issue
Back in 1986, Joe Nocera spent a week shadowing Steve Jobs, who was then leading his start-up, NeXT,
Before anyone foresaw a time when a television celebrity could become president, Norman Mailer wrote
