BAD CHEMISTRY
A new book digs deep into the horrifying career of Sidney Gottlieb, the scientist who ran the CIA's damaging and possibly lethal experiments in drug-induced mind control.
Kevin Canfield is a writer in New York. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Film Comment, Bookforum, and other publications.
CHASING SHADOWS
In 1999, author Tom O’Neill accepted a magazine request to write about the Manson murders. Twenty years later, he’s still on the case.
TRUE CRIME
In 1975, two Maryland girls went missing. Forty years later, a break in the case lured the ‘Black Hawk Down’ author back to investigate a story he’d covered as a young reporter.
ORDEAL
The more time Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian and his wife spent in an Iranian prison, the clearer it became that he was being jailed for doing his job.
FUNNY BUT FRIGHTENING
According to the nation’s top cops, James Baldwin was a ‘pervert,’ Norman Mailer was ‘difficult to read,’ and Susan Sontag was ‘subversive.’
Kalokagathia
Technology may be amplifying our egotism, but its roots go way, way back, a new book argues.
DISGRACED
A new book argues that football booster clubs, tax exemptions, and academic hypocrisy have so thoroughly tainted college football that any remedies or reforms may be too late.
Good Fences
There are already 650 miles of walls and other barriers on the U.S.-Mexican border, so it’s not like we don’t know what works and what doesn’t. So let’s get constructive about the construction.
Gun Culture
Selecting one fall day in 2013, reporter Gary Younge exposes the toll of gun violence in the U.S. by focusing on the lives of 10 children across the country who were shot to death.
TROUBLING
Author Dan Zak talks about the strange case of three elderly activists who easily broke into ‘the Fort Knox of Uranium’ in 2012.