Jonathan Mahler

Jonathan Mahler is a longtime staff writer for the New York Times Magazine and the author of the best-selling Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning, which was adapted as an ESPN mini-series; The Challenge, a New York Times Notable Book and winner of the Scribes Award; and The Gods of New York (publishing in August 2025). Before the Times, he was a sports columnist for Bloomberg. His investigative journalism and...