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Don’t Mess With Roy Cohn, by Ken Auletta from 2016-12-22T11:56:05
If president-elect Donald Trump learned anything from his mentor Roy Cohn, it was this: punch first and never apologize. Cohn was notorious for going on the attack—as counsel for Senator Joseph McC...
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The Days of Wine and Pig Hocks, by Jim Harrison from 2016-11-21T12:51:11
Jim Harrison, the novelist and poet who died earlier this year at the age of 78, had a gargantuan, fearless appetite that would make both A.J. Liebling and Anthony Bourdain proud. He wrote about fo...
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Love in the Time of Magic, by E. Jean Carroll from 2016-11-07T12:23:05
A chronicle of risk and romance on the sidelines of the NBA
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The House That Thurman Munson Built, by Michael Paterniti from 2016-10-24T12:43:21
Trust me, he said, and the last great brawling sports team in America did. Twenty years after Thurman Munson’s death, Reggie, Catfish, Goose, Gator, the Boss—and a nation of former boys—still aren’...
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The Brain That Changed Everything, by Luke Dittrich from 2016-10-10T18:27:30
When a surgeon cut into Henry Molaison’s skull to treat him for epilepsy, he inadvertently created the most important brain-research subject of our time—a man who could no longer remember, who taug...
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Nureyev Dancing In His Own Shadow, by Elizabeth Kaye from 2016-09-26T14:18:20
At the end of a glorious career, the defiant legend takes refuge in his most cherished partner—himself.
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Styron’s Choices, by Philip Caputo from 2016-09-12T12:06:15
The artist’s life demands solitude, sensitivity, and often a little something to get him through the night. The very same things can destroy him
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My Father, the Bachelor, by Martha Sherrill from 2016-08-22T11:23:41
He was a beautiful man, and someone had to liberate these women from their marriages. When he died, women grieved. Lots and lots of women.
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What It Takes, by Richard Ben Cramer from 2016-08-01T11:56:09
What It Takes is the most comprehensive account ever written about the personal price of running for president.
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My Father’s Life, by Raymond Carver from 2016-07-25T11:06:32
When he looks back at his father, he sees a dim figure losing its substance to sickness, and when the past is a cipher, there is no redeeming the present. There is only living it.
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America’s Most Powerful Lunch, by Lee Eisenberg from 2016-07-11T13:29:09
The closing of the Four Seasons, home of the “power lunch.”
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Michael Bay, by Jeanne Marie Laskas from 2016-06-27T11:49:41
Do you smell that? That’s another Michael Bay movie burning up the box office. And if that bothers you, if you think he’s just another schlockmeister with fancy cars and testosterone problems, all ...
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The Old Man and the River, by Pete Dexter from 2016-06-13T11:42:15
Norman Maclean taught Shakespeare until he was seventy, then wrote a timeless story worthy of the bard himself.
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“I, Stalkerazzi” and “Angelina Jolie and the Torture of Fame,” by John H. Richardson from 2016-05-31T15:37:23
John H. Richardson on our cultural infatuation with celebrity and the humanity that lurks on both sides of the camera lens.
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The Shooter, by Phil Bronstein from 2016-05-16T11:47:58
The man who shot and killed Osama bin Laden tells his story for the first time.
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The Plane at the Bottom of the Ocean, by Bucky McMahon from 2016-05-02T12:55:23
In the year 2015, with GPS and satellites and global surveillance everywhere all the time, how does a massive airplane simply go missing?
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What Do You Think of Ted Williams Now? by Richard Ben Cramer from 2016-04-18T11:37:29
The furious saga of Teddy Ballgame.
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Old, by Mike Sager from 2016-04-04T12:41:51
Boy oh boy oh boy, Sanberg. You’re 92. And you’ve been old longer than you’ve been anything else.
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The String Theory, by David Foster Wallace from 2016-03-21T12:22:40
What happens when all of a man’s intelligence and athleticism is focused on placing a fuzzy yellow ball where his opponent is not? An obsessive inquiry into the physics and metaphysics of tennis.
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The American Male at Age Ten, by Susan Orlean from 2016-03-07T13:09:29
What it feels like to be a boy in America.
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The Price of Being President, by Richard Ben Cramer from 2016-02-22T13:51:39
What It Takes is the most unvarnished account ever written about the personal price of running for president.
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The Death of Patient Zero, by Tom Junod from 2016-02-08T14:21:11
How ”The Death of Patient Zero” helped push the boundaries of modern medicine.
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The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce, by Tom Wolfe from 2016-01-25T01:08:19
A meeting of two American masters: Robert Noyce and Tom Wolfe.
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Martin Luther King Jr Is Still on the Case! by Garry Wills from 2016-01-11T16:56:59
12 Years a Slave screenwriter John Ridley discusses Garry Wills’s 1968 profile, “Martin Luther King Jr Is Still on the Case!”
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M, by John Sack from 2015-12-28T01:57:24
“Oh my God—we hit a little girl.” This was the single, shocking cover line of the October 1966 issue of Esquire. Inside was John Sack’s 33,000-word New Journalism masterpiece, M, in which he follow...
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The Second Coming of Steve Jobs, by Joe Nocera from 2015-12-14T04:46:39
Joe Nocera's "The Second Coming of Steve Jobs" from 1986 remains the most intimate and honest appraisals of the computer visionary ever written. Nocera, a longtime New York Times reporter and op-ed...
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Superman Comes to the Supermarket, by Norman Mailer from 2015-11-30T22:05:51
Norman Mailer's legendary 1960 reported essay, “Superman Comes to the Supermarket,” about JFK and the Democratic political convention.
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Frank Sinatra Has a Cold, by Gay Talese from 2015-11-15T23:46:06
Gay Talese joins host David Brancaccio to discuss how "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" came about, the evolution of celebrity, and why his story remains as resonant today as the day it was first published.
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The Crack-Up, by F. Scott Fitzgerald from 2015-11-02T01:22:50
F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Crack-Up," a series of essays from 1936 about his alcoholism and mental breakdown, set off a genre of confessional writing that persists and thrives today.
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A Few Words About Breasts, by Nora Ephron from 2015-10-19T01:57:19
Jessi Klein, comedian and head writer for "Inside Amy Schumer," discusses Nora Ephron's legendary story about breasts.
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Falling Man, by Tom Junod from 2015-10-01T22:04:55
“The Falling Man”, Esquire’s most-read story of all time, is discussed by host David Brancaccio and Esquire Writer at Large Tom Junod. The story is about an infamous photograph from 9/11 that was p...
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