The Hard Life of Celebrity Elephants
By ROLLO ROMIG
Being a star elephant in Kerala, India, is not as glamorous as you’d think.
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The documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras in Berlin.
How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets
By PETER MAASS
It all started with her own fight against surveillance.
Peter Berg Threw Himself Under a Bus. Now What?
By PAT JORDAN
This time the director is making the movie he really wanted to make — and doing it on the cheap.
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Behind the Cover Story: Michael Steinberger on Roger Federer as Nonreligious Experience
August 26, 2013
Required U.S. Open Reading, Old and New
August 23, 2013
A Writing Career as a Revenge Fantasy
August 22, 2013
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Lee Daniels: ‘I Am Not Here to Just Tell Black Stories’
Interview by DAVE ITZKOFF
The director on casting the presidents and tormenting Mariah Carey.
It’s the Economy
Is It Nuts to Give to the Poor Without Strings Attached?
By JACOB GOLDSTEIN
Or is it just good economics?
Eat
For Summer Cooking, Embrace Simplicity
By SAM SIFTON
The sweet harmony of clams, corn and tomatoes.
Innovation
Who Made That Water Bed?
By PAGAN KENNEDY
How one groovy student made a mattress that hugs back.
Riff
The Strange Ascent of ‘Strained Pulp’
By ADAM STERNBERGH, A. O. SCOTT and STEPHANIE ZACHAREK
A Riff Round Table on the high art of lowbrow pleasures.
The One-Page Magazine
‘30 Rock’ Birthing Secrets?
Mark Leibovich’s stump-speech lessons; Mario Batali’s royal spritzer.
From the Archive
The Silent Power of the N.S.A.
David Burnham’s 1983 article about the expanding authority of the intelligence agency.
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Editors' Picks
The Weather God of Oklahoma City
By SAM ANDERSON
You know a storm is going to be bad, people in Oklahoma will tell you, when Gary England removes his jacket.
A Save-the-World Field Trip for Millionaire Tech Moguls
By MAX CHAFKIN
How a vice-loving club promoter saved himself through charity. And how he’s persuading Silicon Valley’s superrich to do the same.
Riff
Stop Blaming ‘Jaws’!
By HEATHER HAVRILESKY
“Jaws” is accused of spawning the summer blockbuster — which is weird, given that today’s blockbusters have nothing in common with “Jaws.”
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