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The landlord’s guide to gentrifying New York.
Simon van Zuylen-Wood Bloomberg Business Oct 2016 15min Permalink
We don’t really understand the ocean bottom. We’re mining it anyway.
Brooke Jarvis California Sunday Nov 2014 15min Permalink
Myth, storytelling, and lore in the most disappointing clubhouses of America’s pastime.
Rolf Potts Medium Oct 2016 15min Permalink
On Atlanta’s disappearing Afrofuture.
Rodney Carmichael Creative Loafing Atlanta Oct 2016 20min Permalink
How Bill Kennedy, the only openly gay referee in the NBA, came out.
Kevin Arnovitz ESPN Oct 2016 30min Permalink
An obsession with stones propels a woman from childhood to adulthood.
Mallory McMahon Necessary Fiction Oct 2016 10min Permalink
Three of our favorite articles on the latest Nobel Prize winner.
A profile of a young Dylan and the early ’60s folk scene.
Nat Hentoff New Yorker Oct 1964 30min
”I don’t want anybody to be hung-up … especially over me, or anything I do.”
Jann Wenner Rolling Stone Nov 1969 1h
The making of Blonde on Blonde in Nashville.
Sean Wilentz Oxford American Jan 2007 25min
Oct 1964 – Jan 2007 Permalink
The Obama administration was supposed to fight corporate concentration. In the airline industry, at least, it didn’t work out that way.
Justin Elliott ProPublica Oct 2016 20min Permalink
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Like many of my friends, I spent years using prescription stimulants to get through school and start my career. Then I tried to get off them.
Win, lose or drop out, the Republican nominee has laid waste to the American political system. On the trail for the last gasp of the ugliest campaign in our nation’s history
Monk Matthieu Richard has it figured out. And he wants to help everyone else figure it out, too.
A profile of the troubadour, now 82 and mostly confined to his home in Los Angeles.
When the Band decided to stop touring, they asked a young director named Martin Scorsese to put their farewell concert on film. In an excerpt from his new memoir, Testimony, guitarist-songwriter Robbie Robertson recalls the night of Thanksgiving 1976, where electric performances by legends such as Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell created rock history.
Rolf Kaestel stole $264 in 1981. He’s still in jail.
Colby Frazier Salt Lake City Weekly Oct 2016 20min Permalink
Krista Tippett is the host of On Being and the author of Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living.
“Good journalists in newsrooms hold themselves to primitive standards when they’re covering religious ideas and people. They’re sloppy and simplistic in a way that they would never be with a political or economic person or idea. I mean they get facts wrong. They generalize. Because they don’t take it seriously, and they don’t know how to take it seriously.”
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Yearning for conception.
Belle Boggs Orion Mar 2012 15min Permalink
Meet the smokejumpers of America.
Rachel Monroe Bleacher Report Oct 2016 20min Permalink
On police brutality in New York and the race riots of 1964.
James Baldwin The Nation Jul 1966 20min Permalink
Inside the final weeks of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
Mark Leibovich New York Times Magazine Oct 2016 15min Permalink
Meeting Christopher Thomas Knight, a.k.a. the North Pond Hermit, who lived alone in the Maine woods for nearly 30 years.
Michael Finkel GQ Aug 2014 30min Permalink
On the public schools of Detroit.
Alexandria Neason Harper's Oct 2016 25min Permalink
A profile of the troubadour, now 82 and mostly confined to his home in Los Angeles.
David Remnick New Yorker Oct 2016 45min Permalink
The Western Hemisphere before Columbus.
Charles C. Mann The Atlantic Mar 2002 40min Permalink
Life with chronic migraines.
Anna Altman n+1 Oct 2016 20min Permalink
The story of the loneliest whale in the world.
Leslie Jamison The Atavist Magazine Aug 2014 50min Permalink
On the insane business of bottled water.
Sophie Elmhirst The Guardian Oct 2016 20min Permalink
“He kissed me directly on the lips. I thought, ‘Oh my God, gross.’”
Michael Barbaro, Megan Twohey New York Times May 2016 20min Permalink
When her best friend died, she rebuilt him using artificial intelligence.
Casey Newton The Verge Oct 2016 20min Permalink
What happens when you target sex ed at boys?
Rachel Giese The Walrus Mar 2014 25min Permalink
Activists hoped President Obama would fight for stronger regulation. Eight years later, they’re still waiting.
Michael Pollan New York Times Magazine Oct 2016 25min Permalink