Archive - multi-storied

multi-storied #50: The ugly art of self-deportation

Recently, I went on two podcasts to talk about undersea data cables: Bloomberg’s Odd Lots, which I struggled with a hoarse throat; and One Decision, a…

May 31 • Samanth Subramanian

multi-storied #49: Photography's AI crisis

I haven’t been nearly as regular here as I’d like to be—in part because our magazine Equator is voracious with the time of its small staff.

May 4 • Samanth Subramanian

February 2026

multi-storied #48: Jeffrey Epstein in Jor Bagh

I haven’t done much political reporting in India, compared to the veterans—but I’ve certainly spoken a lot to the veterans: worked alongside them, hung…

Feb 4 • Samanth Subramanian

December 2025

multi-storied #47: Printing guns

Many years ago, my wife and I met Latif Nasser, now the co-host of Radiolab (and a terrific guy), for breakfast.

Dec 11, 2025 • Samanth Subramanian

November 2025

multi-storied #46: Old fish, new bottle

Any young boy or girl setting out in the world must have questions about how to go about writing their first book.

Nov 13, 2025 • Samanth Subramanian

September 2025

multi-storied #45: A new magazine!

It’s funny—I suppose I’m a magazine man through and through, having spent most of the last 15 years sweating over magazine pieces.

Sep 18, 2025 • Samanth Subramanian

August 2025

multi-storied #44: The murder of journalists

(This is, I warn you, a slightly haphazard post, very different from regular programming, and written in a bilious fit of despair.)

Aug 11, 2025 • Samanth Subramanian

May 2025

multi-storied #43: The web beneath the waves

It’s just as well for you all that books take years to write.

May 11, 2025 • Samanth Subramanian

March 2025

multi-storied #42: The journalist and the scam artist

The very first sentence of “The Journalist and the Murderer” is full-bore artillery, blowing apart the egos of the practitioners of the very profession…

Mar 29, 2025 • Samanth Subramanian

January 2025

multi-storied #41: What are the odds?

This piece appeared last October in a Bloomberg Businessweek special package on sports gambling—an industry that is rapidly being legalized in US state…

Jan 15, 2025 • Samanth Subramanian

December 2024

multi-storied #40: Ten (+1) things from 2024

A year in writing

Dec 23, 2024 • Samanth Subramanian

November 2024

multi-storied #39: Hold your tongue

To introduce this new story in the New Yorker, a little mea culpa:

Nov 22, 2024 • Samanth Subramanian