Episodes
Total: 44
If president-elect Donald Trump learned anything from his mentor Roy Cohn, it was this: punch first
The question is astonishingly simple: In the year 2015, with GPS and satellites and global surveilla
Published in 1992, Richard Ben Cramer’s What It Takes: The Way to the White House remains the riches
Norman Maclean published A River Runs Through It when he was seventy-three, and only after his child
Jim Harrison, the novelist and poet who died earlier this year at the age of 78, had a gargantuan, f
In 1968, just hours after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, the future Pulitzer Prize–winning
On November 7, 1991, Magic Johnson held a press conference announcing that he had contracted the HIV
It was a meeting of two American masters: Robert Noyce, who, in inventing the integrated computer ch
Reggie Jackson once called himself “the straw that stirs the drink” but there was no question that T
In 1936, F. Scott Fitzgerald, then a struggling writer battling depression and alcoholism, published
In 1953, a twenty-seven-year old factory worker named Henry Molaison, cursed with severe epilepsy, u
It’s hard to think of a profession more maligned than the paparazzi, but in 1998 Esquire writer at l
Rudolf Nureyev was one of the most dynamic performers of the twentieth century. “He was Mick Jagger
Fifty years after it was first published, “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold” remains the most influential an
When journalist Philip Caputo set out to profile William Styron in 1985, it was something of a dream
Do you remember this photograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the
In 1992, writer Susan Orlean was sick of celebrity profiles. Instead, she wanted to do something big
Martha Sherrill’s father, Peter, rakish and handsome, was an irrepressible charmer and natural racon
“A Few Words About Breasts,” from May 1972, is Nora Ephron’s comic lament about how her late onset o
Between 1977 and 1987, Edwin Moses won 122 consecutive races in the men’s 400-meter hurdles—includin