Mike Mariani

Biography

Mike Mariani is the author of What Doesn’t Kill Us Makes Us (Ballantine, 2022). His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, Mother Jones, GQ, and Vanity Fair, among others.

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Rogues’ Gallery

By Mike Mariani ,  Illustration by Enrique Quintero

My lifelong empathy for villains begins, of all places, with my father’s enthusiasm for a vindictive Huron chieftain. I was seven years old when my dad rented The Last of the Mohicans for the first time. 

Colorful art with man.