Recent & Favorite
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ARTICLE
A Snitch’s Dilemma
(Cover story about Alex White, a snitch for the Atlanta police who tried to do the right thing.) The New York Times Magazine, June 29, 2012. full article
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The Fair Ophelia
(profile of Ophelia Dahl, the co-founder of Partners in Health and daughter of Roald Dahl and Patricia Neal) Kindle Single (99¢), via amazon.com.
BOOK REVIEW
Siberian Rhapsody
Travels in Siberia, by Ian Frazier. Columbia Journalism Review, November/December, 2010. full article
BOOK REVIEW
Noises Off
Zero Decibels, The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want, and In Pursuit of Silence.The New York Times Book Review, May 30, 2010. full article
BOOK REVIEW
Human Traffic
The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream, by Patrick Radden Keefe. The Nation, January 4, 2010. full article
ARTICLE
Slipping From Shangri-La
(teenagers leave an isolated valley in Ladakh via the only winter road, a frozen river) Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring, 2009. full article
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The Checkpoint
(both sides of the control of roads in the West Bank) The Atlantic, March, 2006. full article
ESSAY
Backstage Man
(an appreciation of Stanley Booth’s The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones) Columbia Journalism Review, January/February 2006. full article
BOOK REVIEW
Force of Habit
Blue Blood, by Edward Conlon. New York Times Book Review, April 18, 2004. full article
BOOK REVIEW
Guided Tours of Hell
Seek: Reports From the Edges of America and Beyond, by Denis Johnson. New York Times Book Review, June 17, 2001. full article
BOOK REVIEW
A Soul That Won’t Heal
The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams: A Memoir, by Nasdijj*. New York Times Book Review, October 15, 2000. full article
*(It turns out that the author of this book, Nasdijj, was a fake. See the article, “Navahoax,” in the L.A. Weekly.)
ARTICLE
Guarding Sing Sing
(“A firsthand account of the dysfunctional relationship between guards and inmates”) New Yorker, April 3, 2000. full article
ESSAY
Kadi Diallo’s Trial
(on the journey of the mother of a West African mistakenly killed by the NYPD) New York Times Magazine, January 9, 2000. full article
BOOK REVIEW
The Orchid Thief, by Susan Orlean.
New York Times Book Review, January 3, 1999. full article
ARTICLE
Looking for Poppa’s Alaska
(“Eighty years ago his grandfather set out to explore uncharted land on horseback. Then the horses ran off. Ted Conover and his father attempt to wrestle the same route.”) Travel & Leisure, July, 1997. full article
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Hacking
(a hatchet murderer turned software entrepreneur struggles to overcome his past) Wired, August, 1996 full article
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First You Fall
(learning to snowboard) Travel & Leisure, March, 1995. full article
OBITUARY
Eve in the Garden of Aspen
(an appreciation of the First Lady of Aspen) New York Times Magazine, January 1, 1995. full article
ARTICLE
Cowboy Christmas
(twenty-four hours with rodeo cowboys in Utah and Montana). full article and
Learning the Ropes
(a personal passage through bareback riding school). full article Travel & Leisure, July, 1994.
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Christie Picks a Mother
(a single mom with AIDS resolves to line up her replacement before she dies) New York Times Magazine, May 8, 1994. full article
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Trucking Through the AIDS Belt
(five weeks across East Africa with truck drivers at the center of the pandemic) New Yorker, August 16, 1993 full article