The 15-Year Layover
Mehran Karimi Nasseri was without a country, a family or a home. Then he landed at Terminal One at Charles de Gaulle Airport. The article that inspired The Terminal.
Michael Paterniti
Should We Get Used to Mass Shootings?
“This is the story of those 10 days, the new and relentless strain of gun violence in America, and the desperate need for us not to look away.”
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A journey to the Ukraine to learn from the world's tallest man.
Leonid S. is eight and a half feet tall, and he is still growing. He is 34 years old, weighs 480 pounds, and he is still growing. He can't fit in a car, wears size 26 EEEEE shoes, can pick apples eleven feet off the ground standing flat-footed, and yes, he is still growing.
The Bittersweet Bounty of Greenland's First Spring
How climate change is altering food in Greenland.
The Suicide Catcher
The angel saving jumpers on an infamous bridge in China.
The Long Fall of One-Eleven Heavy
On the 1998 crash of Swissair Fight 111 into the sea off a small Nova Scotia fishing village.
The Time Capsule That’s as Big as Human History
When the apocalypse comes, survivors (and aliens!) will be happy that Martin Kunze built this place.
He Might Be a Prophet. That, or the Greatest Chef in the World.
A profile of Ferran Adriá.
Jimmy Carter for Higher Office
At 93, Jimmy Carter still spends most weekends in his hometown, preaching wise and powerful sermons. Sermons that speak to our current national crisis. That make us realize: We need Mr. Jimmy now more than ever.
Dragonman, the Man Who Sells "People-Hunting Guns"
Meet Mel Bernstein. He goes by the name Dragonman, and he’s one of the largest independent purveyors of firearms in the western United States, and the self-proclaimed most armed man in America. At Dragonland—his home, shop, shooting range, and military museum outside Colorado Springs—no gun sells quicker than the weapon used in the most recent mass shooting. Amidst a new gun conversation, it’s business as usual. But even here, it turns out there’s a price to pay.
Jimmy Kimmel Doesn't Want to Cry
A late night host finds a new voice.
This Is the Comedy Godfather of Television
A profile of Norman Lear, the producer behind All in the Family and The Jeffersons, who is still making TV at age 94.
The Secrets of the 80-Year-Old Chinese Runway Model
How did an obscure artist who survived the Cultural Revolution become a viral sensation and suddenly the surreal, sexy center of Fashion Week?
Mr. Nobody
Unraveling the story of an amnesiac who doesn’t want to know his past.
The House That Thurman Munson Built
The life, death, and ghost of a catcher.
1957 Man
A journey into the 1950s.
Don't Cry for Tracy Morgan
“I faced death and all that shit. It’s my responsibility to come back and come back strong. It’s going to take more than a Walmart truck to take that gift away. I can’t wait to make you all laugh. Especially you, Mike. And I already did that today. So all is good.”
Stud: How to Have 106 Babies (and Counting)
Ed Houben, a self described “ugly man,” has sex with multiple women each week, sometimes two in one day. The women, often accompanied by their husbands, are trying to get pregnant.
The Accident
An essay on a fatal car crash in the author’s youth.
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The Man Who Sailed His House
Two days after the Japanese tsunami, after the waves had left their destruction, as rescue workers searched the ruins, news came of an almost surreal survival: Miles out at sea, a man was found, alone, riding on nothing but the roof of his house.
Excerpted from Love and Other Ways of Dying and including a new interview with the author.
The Dogs of War
On America’s combat canines and their handlers.
The Mountains Where Women Live as Men
On the burrneshas of Albania.
The Heartbreak Boys of Coogee Beach
Eleven members of an Australian rugby club traveled to Bali. After a bomb went off at a nightclub, only five of them made it home.
Never Forget
Visiting Cambodia, and a Khmer Rouge prison camp, 30 years after the genocide.
I Do. I Do. I Do. I Do. I Do. I Do. I Do. I Do. I Do.
Confessions of a serial husband.
