What Tyler Skaggs Left Behind
On the death of a major league pitcher and its aftermath.
On the death of a major league pitcher and its aftermath.
Mirin Fader Bleacher Report Sep 2020 20min Permalink
How precious maps, books, and art vanished from the Pittsburgh archive over the course of 25 years.
Travis McDade Smithsonian Aug 2020 15min Permalink
In 1944, an eighteen year old boy became famous for throwing eggs at Frank Sinatra. Then he disappeared.
J.P. Robinson Medium May 2019 15min Permalink
Kim Kardashian West’s makeup artist launches a new line.
Rachel Syme New Yorker Aug 2020 20min Permalink
A patriotic parade, a bloody brawl, and the origins of U.S. law enforcement’s war on the political left.
Bill Donahue The Atavist Magazine Aug 2020 40min Permalink
Nina Compton’s adopted city knows how to ride out a storm. The pandemic plays by different rules.
Helen Rosner New Yorker Aug 2020 25min Permalink
How did a couple who built an empire of yoga studios and homes with “living walls” end up as pandemic villains?
Bridget Read The Cut Aug 2020 25min Permalink
An interview with “one of the most influential data gurus” in electoral politics.
Eric Levitz New York Aug 2020 Permalink
Interviews, documents and jailhouse recordings reveal a clearer picture of the life and death of the 26-year-old emergency room technician.
Rukmini Callimachi New York Times Aug 2020 25min Permalink
His hotel heists had detectives convinced they were on the trail of one of the world’s most skilled con-men.
Matthew Bremner Truly*Adventurous Aug 2020 Permalink
A profile of the actor, who died yesterday at age 43.
Reggie Ugwu New York Times Jan 2019 10min Permalink
Filipino teachers, hired to fill historic shortages in the South and elsewhere, fight their exploitation by opportunistic recruiters.
Rachel Mabe Oxford American Aug 2020 30min Permalink
On Toyin Salau’s disappearance and death.
Samantha Schuyler Jezebel Aug 2020 25min Permalink
For a rebellious, Korean-American teen like myself who was awkwardly trying to situate himself, without much success, Jackson’s writing, with its rap and jazz references and its relentless, engaging voice, provided a vision of Black agency that felt almost illicit.
Jay Caspian Kang New York Review of Books Aug 2020 20min Permalink
An artist struggles with family loss and complexities.
Gina Chung Split Lip Magazine Aug 2020 10min Permalink
The author, on book tour when the pandemic set in, reflects on what could have been worse—and what could be better.
Kiese Makeba Laymon Vanity Fair Aug 2020 20min Permalink
The diaspora of Hurricane Katrina.
Katherine Boo New Yorker Nov 2005 20min Permalink
George Floyd’s killing galvanized a nation. But small groups like the queer-led collective Black Visions are channeling that energy into a movement for political change.
Jenna Wortham New York Times Magazine Aug 2020 30min Permalink
Baynard Woods and Brandon Soderberg are the co-authors of the new book I Got A Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad.
“We really wanted to create some kind of leftist, anti-racist true crime story that we really haven’t seen. The conventions of the thriller often smuggle in all of this really right-wing, pro-police propaganda that all of our cops were raised on—the story of cops having to crash cars and break rules in order to get the bad guys. We wanted to take that and subvert it, using its methods to blow it up from the inside while also being rigorously reported.”
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Aug 2020 Permalink
Over a decade, Theodore Robert Wright III destroyed cars, yachts, and planes. That was only the half of it.
Katy Vine Texas Monthly Aug 2020 20min Permalink
At Lucky Peach and the Los Angeles Times, Peter Meehan reshaped food media. Now his former employees are coming forward to describe the cost of his leadership.
Meghan McCarron Eater Aug 2020 30min Permalink
A work trip to Turkmenistan.
James Lomax London Review of Books Jul 2020 15min Permalink
An interview with Alan Stillman, who in 1965 founded T.G.I. Friday’s, the first singles bar in America.
Krista Ninivaggi, Nicola Twilley Edible Geography Nov 2010 15min Permalink
Fear, control, and manipulation at Yoga to the People.
Laura Wagner, Shannon Wagner Vice Jul 2020 30min Permalink
Tech oracle Jaron Lanier warned us all about the evils of social media.
Zach Baron GQ Aug 2020 20min Permalink