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A little after 9 a.m. on Sept. 15, 1990, the owner of a steel-products company pulled up to her office in Vinegar Hill, near the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and spotted a black garbage bag sitting on the sidewalk out front. She parked her car and went to move the bag when she noticed it leaking blood. The…
Part I: Too Rare to Die
Outside they were smoking cigarettes at a picnic table beside the large white building. One full week had passed. Over the course of that week she’d gone from a former smoker to a Marlboro Lights smoker to a Newport smoker, after she’d run out and began bumming menthols from…
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This is an excerpt from Christopher Hitchens' new memoir, Hitch-22.
3: A Short Footnote on the Grape and the Grain
2: Fragments From an Education
1: The Commander: My Father, Eric Hitchens
I often have difficulty convincing my…
The Spirit of Mega By Bruce Sterling
Think the project you’re working on is big? Because we’re talking huge. Monumental. Triple Xtra Large. Bruce Sterling reports on how hubris and $20 billion can still buy a pretty big chunk of Planet Earth.
I’m doing lunch at Le Jules Verne, the only…
It takes confidence to sit in front of an audience, armed with a few pages of notes and one glass of water, wearing clothes you may have slept in, using your rubbery face as your primary prop, to discuss warmly but ultimately damningly, for nearly two hours, a man you never met. A man thought of as…
Many and various are the New York tales that are told of professor Sidney Morgenbesser. During a conference of linguistic philosophers at Columbia University, he interrupted the pompous J. L. Austin, who was saying that while many double negatives express a positive—as in “not unattractive”—there is…
Photographs by Terry Richardson. Styled by Jessica Diehl. Consulting Stylist, Samantha McMillen.
The November issue of Vanity Fair will be on newsstands in New York and L.A. on October 4, and nationally and on the iPad October 11.
He’s Hollywood’s best-paid actor, but he doesn’t have to like it:…
Scarlett Johansson has packed a whole career into 26 years: indie hits, action blockbusters, Broadway triumph, Woody Allen muse-dom. Now she wants her obituary written? As Johansson stars this month opposite Matt Damon in Cameron Crowe’s We Bought a Zoo, having just wrapped next summer’s The…
When he was in prison, Jessie Misskelley drank his coffee from a mug made of cheap white plastic, and when he got out of prison, he brought that mug home with him to West Memphis, Arkansas. He brought a bag of prison coffee, too, freeze-dried crystals packaged by an off-brand supply company, which…
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As recently as 15 years ago, if somebody wanted vivid depictions of, say, two men simultaneously performing anal penetration on the same woman, securing such a delicacy would require substantial effort because the pornographic repertoire was still limited by…
In 1996 I received what was - and probably remains - the most exciting telephone call I have ever had. It was from a man calling himself Tony. "I'm phoning on behalf of Stanley Kubrick," he said.
"I'm sorry?" I said.
"Stanley would like you to send him a radio documentary you made called Hotel…
By Matthew Brzezinski Sunday, July 24, 2005
This is the story of a man who has stared evil in the eye and held the fates of mass murderers in his hands. It begins at a company picnic, where children are cavorting as their parents dine on healthful salads and low-carb entrees. This is appropriate, in…
I'm operating on extreme hope. I am in Instanbul All I know is that Allen Iverson
is here — in this city of 13 million, with one foot in Asia and one in Europe — to play basketball. His manager keeps saying no, that Allen won’t talk to me. So I ask the concierge in my hotel: If you’re Allen Iverson…
Tumblog of Frank Chimero. Collecting interesting bits here. Occasionally writing around the periphery of design. Hello! I was asked to speak at the AIGA National Conference in Phoenix, Arizona on October 13th as part of their Emerging Designers Symposium. This is the talk I gave.
This morning I…
Real Niggas Don't Send Dick Flicks It only occurs to me after midnight that it might be past 8 P.M. Normally, due to domestic circumstances, I'm asleep by ten. But it doesn't feel late. Rick Ross lives in his own personal time zone, and when you're around him, you're subject to it. Though I do…
At the Sainsbury Wing of London's National Gallery, in Room 58, a painting by the 15th-century Italian artist Piero di Cosimo of a woman lying on her side has been hung opposite Botticelli's Venus and Mars. The fame of the latter makes it a significant attraction for visitors. Yet those who shuffle…
BERG's Matt Jones asked if I'd be willing to contribute a short essay to a print item he was designing, a little something called SVK. Written by Warren Ellis, drawn by D'Israeli, foreword by William Gibson. Yeah, let me think about that and get back to you.
Because the plot of SVK concerns an…
His heart pounded in his chest, but he tried to ignore it. Stay cool, he told himself. Stay loose. He glanced sideways at his friend in the passenger seat. Jeff Westerberg, also sixteen, stared straight ahead. They got to Dead Man's Curve, with the cliff on the left, and Joe kept driving. As they…
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by Michaelangelo Matos
Fatboy Slim in the booth, circa 2000.
Fatboy Slim in the booth, circa 2000.
How do you sell an enigma? In the 1990s, American rave was a big but scattered subculture. Packaging its fleeting tunes and site-specific good times for mainstream consumption…
Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All are a 10-deep hip-hop collective. But don't dare call them the new Wu-Tang Clan. They insist they're different. The collective features rappers, producers, visual artists, skate kids, contrarians, outcasts, amoral teenagers, and fatherless children. They are known…
"They tell me don't get high And I should try to make a living I tell em I'm a hustla And I gotta make a killing" --Lil Wayne, Da Drought 3
Is it possible Young Weezy's amount of recorded output is roughly equal to the amount of quality time he spends in a purple haze? Based on his lyrics, I…
Because my credit is too toe up for any landlord's background application, me and my trundle bed have to stow ourselves away on the leases of others. Lately I've been lodging with a kindly and dedicated mp3J (who of course still calls himself a DJ, just as folks still talk about the horses under…
Talking to Rolling Stone at the end of 2001, Jay-Z put into perspective what it was like to rhyme over an official remix of Michael Jackson's "You Rock My World": "Mike was a superhero when I was a kid. Him wanting to work with me, period, was bananas!" Something about that line stuck with me. For…
Feross Aboukhadijeh likes to tell the story of how he got famous. It happened last fall, as he was beginning his junior year at Stanford. Google had just unveiled a feature called Google Instant, which shows search results in real time, as you type. “I thought it was kind of gimmicky,” says Feross.…
Playboy Magazine Excerpts From the Book In the fall of 1979, the author returned to a high school he had attended briefly some years back. He registered as a student under an assumed name with the cooperation of the principal, who was the only one to know the secret. Because of his youthful…
INDSIGT. Den 11. september 2001 er en dato, som for de fleste står lysende klar. Dagen som betød, at verden aldrig ville blive den samme igen.
Angrebet den skæbnesvangre tirsdag i 2001 trækker sine rødder helt tilbage til Iran. Ikke kun til den islamiske revolution, der i 1978-79 rullede ind over…
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"She was blown away," Karpinski continues. "She felt like someone was finally talking to her. Paying attention. He seemed far more experienced and worldly than anyone she knew. It only took a few short conversations. She was enamored…
Over the course of a quarter-century, a journalist witnessed the transformation of George W. Bush
They still called him Junior when we first met, in forlorn Midland, Texas, back in July 1986. He was known then for being the son of the vice president of the United States, the agonizingly named George…
When Peter Thiel ventures outside for a run, typically in the early-early morning, when the fog drifts low and slow into the San Francisco Bay, he's often drawn to what the poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti called "the end of land and land of beginning." That means the San Francisco waterfront—especially…
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It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the honor of kings is to…
The first time I remember hearing Irving Lazar’s name was in 1950, at Eden Roc, on the Cap d’Antibes. “Nobody who matters calls Lazar Swifty,” my Uncle Alex warned me. “He hates the bloody name.” Lazar was then in his forties, I suppose, and was already an internationally famous superagent in the…
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PLAYBOY: In the past five years alone you’ve starred in numerous movies, including 127 Hours, Pineapple Express, Howl, Eat Pray Love and Milk, published a book as well as short fiction in major magazines, appeared in a recurring role on General Hospital, guest starred on 30…
Nestled in a back corner of Mogadishu’s Aden Adde International Airport is a sprawling walled compound run by the Central Intelligence Agency. Set on the coast of the Indian Ocean, the facility looks like a small gated community, with more than a dozen buildings behind large protective walls and…
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The Shocking Story of Approved Killing in Mississippi By William Bradford Huie
Editors Note: In the long history of man's inhumanity to man, racial conflict has produced some of the most horrible examples of brutality. The recent slaying of Emmett Till…
Her killer did a bad job. It was amateur work: There were bloody fingerprints and footprints all over the apartment, and the killer even defecated in the toilet and forgot to flush. But that wasn't the worst of it. Whoever murdered Meredith Kercher didn't know how to use a knife.
The first two…
And why not? Bachmann's joint appearance with the president represented her coming-out party on the national stage, the brightest moment yet in a whirlwind seven-year electoral career that has made her Minnesota's most famous Christian conservative, and perhaps the most polarizing figure in state…
What shall Justin Timberlake do today, on this overcast Los Angeles afternoon in the middle of spring? He’s been going to sleep early, around 10 P.M., so when he wakes up in his Spanish-style house in the Hollywood Hills, he feels well rested. He crawls out of bed all alone to brush his teeth, take…
The CIA believed he was a “golden source,” a top-secret informant who had penetrated al-Qaeda and brought the agency within striking distance of the terrorist group’s senior leadership. But Humam al-Balawi, a Jordanian pediatrician turned spy, was not what he seemed.
In late 2009, several months…
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