Selected articles

Blood Relation

My discovery of my uncle the hit man.

[The New Yorker]

Prairie Fire

The suicide of a teenage prodigy in rural Nebraska. National Magazine Award finalist for feature writing.

[The New Yorker]

Kuwait on the Prairie

The oil explorers who created the boom in North Dakota.

[The New Yorker]

Made in the Shade

On the color forecasting industry.

[The New Yorker]

Who Killed Anna Mae?

The unsolved murder of a Native American political activist.

[New York Times Magazine]

Unseparated Since Birth

The Bryan Brothers, identical twins and the greatest doubles team in tennis history.

[New York Times Magazine]

Is Anybody Buying Art These Days?

The Mugrabis, a family of art speculators.

[New York Times Magazine]

Marcus Camby Has Nobody to Play With

A season with the New York Knicks.

[New York Times Magazine]

The Battle of Lyford Cay

A pair of billionaire next-door-neighbors in the Bahamas who set out to destroy one another.

[Vanity Fair]

The Chairmen

Two rival antiques dealers in Paris and a forgery scandal at Versailles.

[Vanity Fair]

Woo Cho Bang Bang

A teenage gangland murder case in Brownsville, Brooklyn.

[New York Magazine]

Why Damon Dash Hates Mondays

Damon Dash, the man who invented Jay-Z.

[New York Magazine]

Bad Blood the Color of Rubies

A family of fantastically wealthy gemstone dealers in India who share a mansion and can't stand one another.

[New York Magazine]

Goga Ashkenazi: The First Female Oligarch of Fashion

A Kazakhstani oligarch buys a famous fashion house in Milan and makes herself the chief dressmaker.

[New York Magazine]

The Trials of Art Superdealer Larry Gagosian

An intimate glimpse at how Larry Gagosian, the biggest art dealer in the world, operates, told through the history of three Warhol paintings.

[New York Magazine]

The Murder of an African Miner — And His Son’s Quest For Revenge

About the political assassination of a geologist in Kenya who'd discovered a new gemstone and revolutionized the jewelry business.

[Men’s Journal]

Paperback Writer

The thriller author Harlan Coben's highly productive life.

[The Atlantic]

Sriracha Is for Closers

A portrait of a floor in a WeWork building.

[Esquire]

The Real Ex-Husband of Beverly Hills

The composer David Foster, paterfamilias to an impressive number of reality-TV stars.

[Vanity Fair]

Mario Batali’s Empire in the Wake of Mario Batali

The Superchef's Rise and Fall.

[New York Magazine]

Can U.S. Men’s Tennis Rise Again?

Why Noah Rubin's friends think Andy Roddick was a male model.

[New York Times Magazine]

A Fine Madness

How a band of Hollywood misfits created the most seductive show on TV.

[Rolling Stone]

The Fall of Animal House

For Dartmouth's infamous fraternity, the choice is change or die.

[Rolling Stone]

What Have They Done to the Four Seasons?

Reinventing an institution.

[New York Magazine]

Breaking Bob

Bob Odenkirk and the making of Better Call Saul.

[New York Magazine]

Selected New York Times articles

The Talk of The Town