"The best article in the New Yorker this year"

Laura McKenna liked David Grann's piece on Peter Paul Biro too.

And a commenter adds: "It's a terrific article. Particularly if you saw the movie Who the *$&% Is Jackson Pollock? I have to admit, I was totally taken in. Seems very convincing in the movie. It would be great to show the movie to students first and then assign this article! It really makes you think about how one-sided a 'documentary' can be."

Yeah, some of them can be.