When the Man in Black Met the Guys in Tie-Dye
by Nick Paumgarten
Owsley Stanley, the legendary Grateful Dead soundman and LSD chemist, left behind thirteen hundred reels of live recordings from his sonic laboratory, including a newly released recording of the night Johnny Cash came to town.
When a Witness Recants
by Jennifer Gonnerman
At fourteen, Ron Bishop helped convict three innocent boys of murder. They’ve all lived with the consequences.
A Black Communist’s Disappearance in Stalin’s Russia
by Joshua Yaffa
What happened to Lovett Fort-Whiteman, the only known African American to die in the Gulag?
Paul McCartney Doesn’t Really Want to Stop the Show
by David Remnick
Half a century after the Beatles broke up, he’s still correcting the record—and making new ones.
The Precious Contingencies of Immigrants in “Sanctuary City”
by Vinson Cunningham
Martyna Majok’s play, presented by New York Theatre Workshop at the Lucille Lortel, focusses on two precisely defined characters to explore the injustices experienced by Dreamers in America.
When Black History Is Unearthed, Who Gets to Speak for the Dead?
by Jill Lepore
Efforts to rescue African American burial grounds and remains have exposed deep conflicts over inheritance and representation.
An Accidental Collection
by Haruki Murakami
How I amassed more T-shirts than I can store.
How the Real Jane Roe Shaped the Abortion Wars
by Margaret Talbot
The all-too-human plaintiff of Roe v. Wade captured the messy contradictions hidden by a polarizing debate.
Invasion of the Robot Umpires
by Zach Helfand
The minor leagues have been testing the Automated Ball-Strike System. But isn’t yelling and screaming about bad calls half the fun of baseball?
On Air with the Greatest Radio Station in the World
by David Owen
WPKN-FM—on which you can hear a Stevie Wonder song performed by an all-women jazz septet or twenty minutes of Tuvan throat singing—moves to a new location in downtown Bridgeport, Connecticut.