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Benjamin Wallace

Features writer for New York Magazine
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  1. profile
    Mark Manson, the Self-Help Guru Who Burned OutHe sold 12 million copies of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck. Then he started taking his own advice.
  2. business
    When Smoke Gets in Your WineGrowers, vintners, and scientists are scrambling to protect California’s prized Napa Cab from the aftertaste of wildfires.
  3. the money game
    How Gary Vaynerchuk Became an NFT Guru — and Lord of His Own MetaverseNFTs weren’t just something he could collect; they knotted all the threads of his career.
  4. tech
    How Miami Seduced Silicon ValleyAwash in coders, crypto, and capital, the city is loving — and beginning to shape — its newest industry.
  5. the industry
    Where’s Scott Rudin?As Broadway reopens, its most significant producer has been banished — perhaps for the good, perhaps permanently. But also, perhaps, not.
  6. media
    Inside the Nasty Battle Between Tech and JournalismSilicon Valley feels picked on by “woke” journalists “who can’t code.” Reporters feel picked on by petty zillionaires with anger-management problems.
  7. encounter
    The Tech Elite’s Favorite Pop IntellectualJulia Galef on bringing the rationalist movement to the mainstream.
  8. encounter
    The 65-Year-Old Helping to Un-Deplatform ParlerJeffrey Wernick is not your typical tech investor.
  9. encounter
    The Mysterious Cryptocurrency Magnate Who Became One of Biden’s Biggest DonorsTalking political bets with 28-year-old CEO Sam Bankman-Fried.
  10. mysteries
    The Great 21st-Century Treasure HuntWas there a better way to spend the past decade than on a maddening, deadly, brain-scrambling search for gold hidden somewhere in the American West?
  11. media
    The Fall of TroyHearst hired a belligerent leader to disrupt its magazine business. Then fired him mid-disruption. Now it’s left with — what, exactly?
  12. emmy insider
    Is Anyone Watching Quibi?The streaming platform raised $1.75 billion and secured a roster of A-list talent, but it can’t get audiences to notice.
  13. feature
    When the Restaurants Closed, They Cooked for Each OtherChef Ignacio Mattos had just earned a Michelin star. Now he’s struggling to feed his staff.
  14. investigations
    The Prep-School NaziBefore he was Norman Spear, hate group founder and possible Russian asset Rinaldo Nazzaro was just another Jersey boy.
  15. encounter
    The Twin Blockchain Entrepreneurs Who Dream of “Digital Air Jordans”Forecasting the future of art collecting with Duncan and Griffin Cock Foster.
  16. obituary
    Remembering Elizabeth Wurtzel, a Proudly Difficult Person“She had a tiny nuclear reactor where the rest of us have a breastbone.”
  17. profile
    The Culthopping Twins Who Have Been Evangelicals, Rappers, and Digital NomadsThey’ve been juicers, rappers, Evangelicals. One ran for Congress. But no matter where these brothers go, they can’t quite seem to fit in.
  18. encounter
    Plotting a Trump Dinner Party With Washington’s Most Famous HostessEvery time a new administration sweeps into town, Sally Quinn offers tips on making nice with the locals. This January will be no exception.
  19. polls
    Nate Silver on What the Polls Got Wrong, and Right, About This ElectionAnd what he got wrong, and right.
  20. select all
    The Kink in Elon Musk’s HyperloopThe dream of zipping from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 35 minutes has run into a few speed bumps.
  21. feature
    An MIT Scientist Claims That This Pill Is the Fountain of YouthLeonard Guarente is certain he’s succeeded where doctors (and quacks) before him have failed. His pill will either extend lives or tarnish his career.
  22. feature
    An MIT Scientist Claims That This Pill Is the Fountain of YouthLeonard Guarente is certain he’s succeeded where doctors (and quacks) before him have failed. His pill will either extend lives or tarnish his career.
  23. animal rights
    In the Battle at SeaWorld, the Whales Have WonScore one for the cetaceans.
  24. art and design 2016
    The Blackest Black Ever KnownLight enters but virtually none of it escapes; 99.965 percent is absorbed.
  25. vulture cover story
    The Epic Fail of Hollywood’s Hottest AlgorithmWhen Ryan Kavanaugh wasn’t hanging out with Bradley Cooper, or leasing a horse for Kate Bosworth, or negotiating a Golden Globes shout-out from Christian Bale, or bringing a baby wolf to the office, he was talking up the sweetest game in Hollywood: the chance to invest in movies that seemed certain to succeed.
  26. tech
    Can Steve Huffman Save Reddit From Itself?He co-founded Reddit. Sold Reddit. Watched Reddit grow. Watched Reddit flounder. Watched Reddit mutiny. Now he’s back, to try to pull Reddit back from the brink.
  27. tech
    Can Steve Huffman Save Reddit From Itself?He co-founded Reddit. Sold Reddit. Watched Reddit grow. Watched Reddit flounder. Watched Reddit mutiny. Now he’s back.
  28. feature
    Fears of a ClownNo one is better at making children laugh than Boswick the Clown. He doesn’t understand why adults are so scared of him.
  29. feature
    Boswick the Clown Doesn’t Understand Why Adults Are So Scared of HimIs clown fear among adults a jokey affectation that has become easy to adopt as clowns fade into irrelevancy and the number of people who’ve seen one in real life dwindles?
  30. profile
    Sitting Shiva With Larry DavidEveryone’s favorite curmudgeon is bringing his particular brand of disagreeability to Broadway. In a play about the ultimate nothing.
  31. Sitting Shiva With Larry DavidEveryone’s favorite curmudgeon is bringing his particular brand of disagreeability to Broadway. In a play about the ultimate nothing.
  32. profile
    The Bitcoin Boy: 16-Year-Old Erik Finman Is in His Silicon Valley PrimeDemand for tech prodigies is at an all-time high. So is the supply.
  33. fall fashion issue
    Who Wants to Dress Like Ryan Seacrest? A Lot of People, Presumably.He’s trying his luck at men’s suits.
  34. profile
    Kara Swisher: Tech’s Most Powerful SnoopThe combination of access and toughness has made her a preeminent arbiter of status.
  35. profile
    Is Terry Richardson an Artist or a Predator?One of the most famous photographers in the world is also now one of its most vilified.
  36. profile
    What’s So Alluring About a Woman Known As Man Repeller?Leandra Medine’s attitude: Women should dress not for men, nor even for other women, but for themselves.
  37. Here, Let Ezra ExplainWhat is D.C.’s most famous young policy wonk doing leaving the Washington Post? Trying to start a news organization he thinks could one d […]
  38. hollywood
    Nikki Finke and Jay Penske’s Business Romance“Never say never. It’s entirely possible that Jay and I make up. Anything is possible.”
  39. Who Killed Michael Hastings?Reflexively distrustful, eager to make powerful enemies, the young journalist whose Mercedes exploded in Los Angeles one night couldn’t possibly […]
  40. fall tv 2013
    The Death of Buckwild Star Shain GandeeIn Gandee, MTV found the real thing: a magnetic, unself-conscious reality-television star.
  41. encounter
    Investigating Big Foot With Pot-Evangelizing Fear Factor Host Joe Rogan“I don’t believe, but I don’t not believe, you know?”
  42. Smoke Without FireA little company called NJOY thinks it has finally designed an electronic cigarette that doesn’t look ridiculous. But would James Dean have smok […]
  43. 32. Because If They Make It Here, You’ll Be Able to Make Anything Anywhere.MakerBot’s industrial revolution.
  44. The Sinking of 22nd StreetArt and commerce underwater.
  45. Autism Spectrum: Are You On It?If so, you’re in good company. From Asperger’s to “Asperger’s,” how the spectrum became quite so all-inclusive.
  46. Crystal Takes HollywoodNBC’s most valuable commodity this fall: an irresistible, virtuoso capuchin monkey.
  47. What Will the Fashion World Do With Kim Kardashian?The sweetest Kardashian loves clothes, models clothes, designs clothes, and has become, with her boyfriend, Kanye West, half of the world’s most enthusiastic fashion couple. If only fashion would return the fervor.
  48. tomkat
    An Inquiry Into the Very Public Private Marriage of Katie Holmes and Tom CruiseAn inquiry into the very public private marriage of Holmes and Tom Cruise.
  49. 46 Minutes With George StephanopoulosTaking in the view from the top with the unlikely new king of morning television.
  50. Château SuckerRare-wine collectors are savvy, competitive guys with a taste for impossible finds. The biggest hoax in history took place right under their noses.
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