An Aging Bank Robber’s Last Heist
David Grann on Forrest Tucker, a career stickup man who robbed a bank at age seventy-eight.
View ArticleCity of Water
David Grann on the intricate and antiquated maze of tunnels that sustains New York—and the sandhogs who struggle to maintain them.
View ArticleThe 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 …
View ArticleMysterious Circumstances
David Grann on the strange death of a Sherlock Holmes fanatic.
View ArticleStealing 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 …
View ArticleThe Lost City of Z
David Grann reports on a quest to uncover the secrets of the Amazon.
View ArticleA Postmodern Murder Mystery
David Grann writes about Krystian Bala, a Polish intellectual accused of murder in part because of details in his violent novel.
View ArticleThe Chameleon
David Grann on the French serial imposter Frédéric Bourdin, who assumed dozens of false identities, including those of missing persons.
View ArticleTrial 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.
View ArticleDavid 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 …
View ArticleDavid 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 …
View ArticleDavid 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…
View ArticleDavid 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 …
View ArticleFinding 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…
View ArticleUnder 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, …
View ArticleOut 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…
View ArticleDavid 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 …
View ArticleMore 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, …
View ArticleBourdin’s Brood
Reporting, Profiles, daily news, cultural coverage, podcasts, videos, and cartoons from The New Yorker.
View ArticleThe 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.
View ArticleAfter 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…
View ArticleThe 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.
View ArticleThe 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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