Top of the Stack
Making It!
“You’ve got it made.” How the words sing a swift jazz poem of success, hi-fi, the best chicks (or guys), your name in lights, pot to burn, jets to L.A. and London, bread in the bank, baby, and a fortress built around your ego like a magic suit of armor!
The Front Page
A Hot Pig Tale!
What Becomes a Legend Most?
Happy 80th Birthday, Pelé
A Celebration of Soccer’s Greatest Player.
The Most Hated Lawyer in America
What drives William Kunstler to stir up outrage—and headlines—by championing such controversial clients as Malcolm X, El Sayyid Nosair, John Gotti, and Heavy D?
Full Tilt Bozo
America desperately needs an elf. He couldn’t have come at a better time.
… Thomas Pynchon on the Run …
Who are you calling a recluse?
The Ballad of Willie Nelson
How troubles with the I.R.S. got an American Master on the road again.
“The Rest is Silence”
Bow down.
Yogi
The guy who made the Yankees almost seem human.
Against Normalization: The Lesson of the “Munich Post”
The truth is always worth knowing.
The Death of a Reporter Who Knew Too Much
Don Bolles lived for little more than his work and his family. He did not die satisfactorily.
Hitler Continued
The Afterward to Rosenbaum’s 1998 masterpiece.
The Story of T
“In Sicily a mafioso’s widow gives his shotgun and boots to his heir. Here she oversees the distribution of bowling alleys, restaurants beauty parlors and parcels of real estate.”