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The Huckster

Alex Rodriguez, whose prodigious talents are matched only by his glaring failures, is an attention-starved masochist who is both perfect and all wrong for New York.

By Bryan Joiner

The America Space

The bluster of midtown Manhattan’s empty consumerism casts long shadows. Photographer Kramer O’Neill searches for shards of its soul.

By Kramer O'Neill

Issue 3 Editors' Note

Welcome to the Showbiz Issue.

By Last Exit Staff

Will Leitch

Will Leitch, editor of the unruly and always engaging Deadspin sports blog, chastises athletes and media alike in his latest book God Save the Fan. He speaks to us about his late, great web site The Black Table, why sports don’t really matter and how the Super Bowl has transformed itself into an increasingly insufferable sports-industrial complex.

By Bryan Joiner

Shreya Saran on the playback.

Bollywood Or Bust

A reporter travels to Mumbai and is instantly recruited for a part in the world’s largest film industry.

By Lauren D. Klein

Drag City

A dispatch from the womblike hotel gyms and awkward mall rallies of the Iowa caucuses.

By Ethan Smith

5 Questions John Strausbaugh

John Strausbaugh

John Strausbaugh is callin’ you a sissy. In his latest book, Sissy Nation, the New York Times contributor and author of Black Like You pokes America in its doughy belly. Being the Pillsbury people we are, we giggled. We asked him who we should dress like to look tough, but he refused to tell us.