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An Aging Bank Robber’s Last Heist

David Grann on Forrest Tucker, a career stickup man who robbed a bank at age seventy-eight.

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City of Water

David Grann on the intricate and antiquated maze of tunnels that sustains New York—and the sandhogs who struggle to maintain them.

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The Brand

ANNALS OF CRIME about the Aryan Brotherhood, a murderous gang that has proliferated through the U.S. prison system… Writer tells about a December 2002 …

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The Squid Hunter

Can Steve O’Shea capture the sea’s most elusive creature?

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Inside Dope

Mark Halperin and the transformation of the Washington establishment.

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Mysterious Circumstances

David Grann on the strange death of a Sherlock Holmes fanatic.

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Stealing Time

THE SPORTING SCENE about baseball player Rickey Henderson. One summer night not long ago, Rickey Henderson, the greatest base stealer and lead-off hitter …

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The Lost City of Z

David Grann reports on a quest to uncover the secrets of the Amazon.

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A Postmodern Murder Mystery

David Grann writes about Krystian Bala, a Polish intellectual accused of murder in part because of details in his violent novel.

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The Chameleon

David Grann on the French serial imposter Frédéric Bourdin, who assumed dozens of false identities, including those of missing persons.

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The Fall

John McCain’s choices.

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Trial by Fire

David Grann on Cameron Todd Willingham, who was convicted, on scant scientific evidence, of a deadly case of arson, but who may have been innocent.

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David Grann: The Prosecution Defends Itself

Several people have asked me what I thought of the op-ed that John Jackson, the prosecutor in the Willingham case, recently published in the Corsicana …

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David Grann: A Sudden Dismissal

Yesterday, the Republican governor of Texas, Rick Perry, abruptly dismissed the chairman and two members of the Texas Forensic Science Commission …

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David Grann: What Stacy Said

The crux of the case against Cameron Todd Willingham—which led him to be executed for committing arson and causing the death of his three daughters—was…

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David Grann: Stacy Speaks

The case of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed in Texas in 2004 and whom I wrote about for The New Yorker last month, has taken another strange …

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Finding the City of Z

This is an incredibly important and astonishing discovery. It further shows that Percy Harrison Fawcett, who I wrote about in The New Yorker and in my book…

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Under the Jungle

The gradual devastation of the Amazon—the felling of thousands of square miles of forest, the clear-cutting of the jungle—has produced, paradoxically, …

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Out of Jail, Back to Congress?

James Traficant, the flamboyant former Democratic congressman from Ohio who recently completed a seven-year stint in jail for bribery and racketeering, has…

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David Grann Takes the Bench

David Grann (whose Reporter at Large piece “Trial by Fire” is nominated for a National Magazine Award) has just released “The Devil and Sherlock …

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More on Cameron Todd Willingham and Elizabeth Gilbert

In researching the stories for my new book, “The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession,” I’ve spent time with con men, …

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Bourdin’s Brood

Reporting, Profiles, daily news, cultural coverage, podcasts, videos, and cartoons from The New Yorker.

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The Fingerprints in the Paint

David Grann on Peter Paul Biro, who, based on fingerprints, has identified uncelebrated works of art as the creations of masters like Leonardo da Vinci and Jackson Pollock.

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A Murder Foretold

Unravelling the ultimate political conspiracy.

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After a Murder Foretold

In August, 2011, the trial of the alleged assassins of Khalil Musa and his daughter Marjorie was completed in Guatemala. I had mentioned the slayings in my…

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The Yankee Comandante

A story of love, revolution, and betrayal.

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The Marked Woman

The first chapter of David Grann’s new book, “Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the F.B.I.,” which is out in April.

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The White Darkness: A Journey Across Antarctica

David Grann writes about Henry Worsley’s solitary trek, which became a singular of character.

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