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The Package King of Miami May 08, 2024
It was the summer of 2023, and Matt Bergwall, a skinny 21-year-old University of Miami student, was lounging in an infinity pool in Dubai. Beside him was his girlfriend, a blonde Zeta Tau Alpha. The silver Cuban link chain on his wrist glistened as h...
The AI Rap Era Has Already Started May 03, 2024
Rap music—an art form that turned fifty this year despite being pronounced dead many times over—supposedly died again on April 19, amid the ongoing contest of champions between Compton and Toronto’s respective favorite sons. The culprit was Drake (wh...
Why Did We Forgive OJ Simpson? April 19, 2024
Hours after the news broke that OJ Simpson had died from cancer at the age of 76, I was sitting in a conference room, listening to an elevated but meandering discussion on the topic of forgiveness. Could absolution be empowering to those who bestowed...
Salman Rushdie Strikes Back April 17, 2024
Salman Rushdie tells us that he wrote Knife, his account of his near-murder at the hands of a 24-year-old Shia Muslim man from New Jersey, for two reasons: because he had to deal with “the elephant-in-the-room” before he could return to writing about...
Rob Henderson on Reliving His Traumatic Childhood April 11, 2024
When the American writer Rob Henderson was a baby, his mother would tie him to a chair so that she could get high uninterrupted. He was taken into foster care in Los Angeles at the age of three. His mother, who was South Korean, was deported and he l...
'The Gentlemen' Is Stylish and Fun April 03, 2024
The great British wit Oscar Wilde once wrote, “In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.” Of all today’s filmmakers, no one better embodies this wisdom than Guy Ritchie. Whether it’s a criminal caper, a revival of a be...
The Workplace Novel Comes to the Big Box Store March 18, 2024
In the halcyon days of the mid-2010s, when Barack Obama was president, Roe v. Wade was the law of the land, and Harvey Weinstein’s crimes remained the stuff of rumor, the bête noire of many young feminists was a species of overeducated, ostensibly en...
Don of a New Age March 18, 2024
The Mafia is an American institution. No wonder it's been in decline since the 1970s. Unlike other American institutions such as the DMV and the TSA, the MOB is esteemed by many of the people it exploits. Not all organized criminals are viewed so rev...
Have the Liberal Arts Gone Conservative? March 15, 2024
The first thing you notice when walking into the middle-school classrooms at Brilla, a charter-school network in the South Bronx, is the sense of calm. No phones are out. The students are quiet—not in the beaten-down way of those under authoritarian ...
Try That in a Big Town March 12, 2024
Bald and bespectacled, my father would never have been mistaken for Wyatt Earp. But I’ll always remember a small act of heroism he performed one night in the lawless Wild West that was 1980s New York City.We went out to dinner, then took a taxi home....
A Crime Fiction Master Flips the Script March 07, 2024
A new Tana French novel is an event, as it has been since her debut In the Woods (2007) established her astonishing command of the crime genre, specifically the police procedural. Five more novels in the Dublin Murder Squad series followed, cementing...
