The New Yorker

The Mark

The F.B.I. needs informants, but what happens when they go too far?

May 2, 2011

Shoot!

An Appalachian gunsmith’s robot army

February 23, 2009

The Zombie Hunters

On the trail of cyberextortionists

October 10, 2005

The World Wide Web

Hello Loneliness

August 22, 2005

(Several weeks after this story appeared, the UK Guardian followed up with a story about the state of the loneliness forum.)

Campus Postcard

A Pile of Paper

April 19, 2004


I'm Evan Ratliff, a freelance journalist, founder/editor The Atavist and feature writer for Wired, The New Yorker, National Geographic, and other publications. I'm also the story editor for Pop-Up Magazine, the world's first live magazine.

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