This is the sentence that caught Ted Kaczynski: "You can't eat your cake and have it too." He used it in his published "manifesto", which his brother David recognized from an old essay of Ted's, making it a "linguistic fingerprint." From @RachelNCorbett fabulous new book:

Listen to @RachelNCorbett's THE MONSTERS WE MAKE - a riveting work of true crime that tells the strange story of criminal profiling from Victorian times to our own. Out now! https://t.co/a8Kawak7jt @wwnorton

‘He was a father figure during my early childhood. Then, he committed an act of unconscionable violence. Was he a killer all along?’ Adapted from Rachel Corbett’s ‘The Monsters We Make.’

Rachel Corbett delivers a fast-paced history of criminal profiling from the Victorian era to the present. While she acknowledges profiling’s appeal, she zeroes in on its limitations and potential abuses. @wwnorton

Coming this fall: THE MONSTERS WE MAKE by @RachelNCorbett Review copies available...

Rachel Corbett reports on how the Black portraiture boom went bust. The racial reckoning of 2020 sent prices soaring. Now, no one’s buying.

Thrilled to join New York mag! I'll be writing general interest features and covering arts and culture

At Art Basel Miami Beach, cancel culture was out, politics were muted, and Kehinde Wiley was forgiven.

Nobody was getting cancelled this year at Art Basel Miami Beach--even Kehinde Wiley was big again, reports @RachelNCorbett https://t.co/GcDKLeLVqv

Kehinde Wiley built an empire out of painting young Black men into art history. Can it survive accusations of sexual assault? https://t.co/0J0Q7pl11z @NYMag

@RachelNCorbett's fascinating and well balanced look at the kehinde wiley sexual assault accusations @vulture @NYMag

on the great american tradition of yard art @tmagazine @HeidelbergProj https://t.co/s25jbVl1UP

This was fascinating! Until I came across this book, I'd had no idea Rilke and Rodin had even met - let alone that Rilke had been Rodin's secretary, or that Rodin's advice had influenced Letters to a Young Poet! #YouMustChangeYourLife by @RachelNCorbett

my @nytmag story on an American corporation’s for-profit city in Honduras is this week’s Sunday Read

Paul McCarthy couldn't find anyone to take his X-rated Disney forest, "so we have to say goodbye to something we love," his son says @TheArtNewspaper

Artist Thomas Houseago, with some help from his Hollywood support bros Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt, opens his first show in a decade in New York.

@RachelNCorbett spent 6 hours in Malibu with Thomas Houseago, who has been working through his anger (“I’m like, I could probably tear your eyeballs out with this pen")

"In promotional materials, Próspera markets itself to '21st-century pioneers' craving not just laissez-faire policies but also 'good times and Caribbean vibes.'" @RachelNCorbett @NYTmag #longreads https://t.co/C2ssR8NeRf

Próspera is a private, for-profit city off the coast of Honduras that was founded by a U.S. corporation to escape government control. The Honduran government wants it gone.

In this week’s Magazine: @RachelNCorbett visits Próspera, the for-profit city-state off the coast of Honduras: