Articles
Here is a selection of pieces that I have written.
Vanity Fair
The Making of Cleopatra, 1998
https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/1998/4/when-liz-met-dick
The Unmaking of The Magnificent Ambersons, 2002
https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2002/1/magnificent-obsession
Johnny Cash and Rick Rubin, 2004
https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2004/10/american-communion
Sly Stone, 2007
https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2007/8/sly-stones-higher-power
Rethinking the American Dream, 2009
https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2009/4/rethinking-the-american-dream
John Hughes, 2010
https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2010/3/sweet-bard-of-youth
Lucian Freud, 2012
https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2012/2/freud-interrupted
Julian Fellowes, 2012
https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2012/12/the-most-happy-fellowes
Kerry Washington, 2013
https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2013/8/scandals-first-lady
Newtown’s Last Normal Day, 2013
https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2013/12/the-day-before
Bruce Springsteen, 2016
https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2016/10/the-book-of-bruce
Atlantis Books, 2016
https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2016/12/the-accidental-bookshop
Jeremy Irons’s Castle, 2017
https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2017/10/kingdom-by-the-sea
GQ
Dave Kopay, 1998
https://www.gq.com/story/dave-kopay-gay-nfl-player-january-1998
The First Black Players in the NBA, 2001
https://www.gq.com/story/first-black-african-american-nba-players-history
Troy Polamalu, 2011
https://www.gq.com/story/troy-polamalu-pittsburgh-steelers-super-bowl
The New York Times
Was Diamond Jim Brady Really That Gluttonous?
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/31/dining/31diam.html
My Tortured Relationship with the New York Giants, 2012
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/david-kamp-new-york-giants.html
Franklin and the Integration of Peanuts, 2018