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multi-storied #31: A duet
Last week, after a gap of many years, I found myself in Varanasi again. It was perhaps a coincidence that the trip was arranged when I was in the midst…
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multi-storied #30: The weight of a story
In the most recent issue of the New York Review of Books, I wrote about a new oral history of the civil war in Yemen. The essay is here, but it’s…
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Samanth Subramanian
multi-storied #29: War by other means
(A word about the image above: The phone belongs to Andrey Liscovich, about whom more below. We were in the German town of Kassel, at breakfast, roughly…
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multi-storied #28: Michael Lewis and Sam Bankman-Fried
A little while ago, I went to California to spend some time with Michael Lewis, who wrote “The Big Short” and “Moneyball” and “The Blind Side” and a…
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multi-storied #27: The cross-training writer
Regulars at any gym will be familiar with the advice to not skip leg day. This is how gyms hook you, of course: by convincing you that different parts…
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multi-storied #26: The travel writer's dilemma
A few years ago, I received an email from a scholar named Tim Hannigan, who said he was working on a PhD thesis about travel writing. He was…
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multi-storied #25: The million-year project
The logistics of getting into Sellafield, a nuclear facility in northwestern England, are both bureaucratic and sartorial. I applied for a media visit…
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