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Robert Caro Got Pretty Intimate with Lyndon B. Johnson

People are abuzz about the New York Times Magazine profile of Robert Caro, biographer of Lyndon Johnson, which somehow makes exciting the details of the exhaustive research Caro undertook to better understand his subject through the five volume, decades-long project.

By Eric Randall

Apr 3, 2012

James Cameron Has Water on the Brain

Fresh from his trip to the bottom of the ocean, James Cameron gets The New York Times Magazine Q&A treatment this week, and when reaching for metaphors he, unsurprisingly, sounds pretty nautical.

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By Eric Randall

Feb 22, 2012

Scott Ritter Would Prefer You Keep Focusing on Iraq, Not Him

The New York Times Magazine's Matt Bai has a new story featuring an in depth interview with Scott Ritter, the U.N. weapons inspector who loudly questioned our reasons for entering the Iraq War and who was later convicted in an underage sex sting.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Feb 10, 2012

Sorry Internet, Lana Del Rey Is Officially a Star

It took Lana Del Rey a month to go from a "wack-a-doodle chick" to the "perfect antidote" to other pop stars according to a profile in T: The New York Times Style Magazine by Jacob Brown, which described the singer as "a skinnier Adele, a more stable Amy Winehouse."

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By Eric Randall

Dec 29, 2011

In Defense of the Top 10 List

It's that time of year when the internet pours forth with top 10 rankings on everything from movies to moments to celebrity babies-to-be, and culture writer Dan Kois has written in the New York Times Magazine a humorous but earnest defense of the "top 10 list" trope. He's done it, though -- of course -- in the form of a top 10 list.

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