The 15-Year Layover
Mehran Karimi Nasseri was without a country, a family or a home. Then he landed at Terminal One at Charles de Gaulle Airport. The article that inspired The Terminal.
Mehran Karimi Nasseri was without a country, a family or a home. Then he landed at Terminal One at Charles de Gaulle Airport. The article that inspired The Terminal.
Michael Paterniti GQ Sep 2003 25min Permalink
Vera Pratt moved to the island at age 70 hoping to find many years of happiness. Then she met “Psychic Angela” and her future got a whole lot more complicated.
Alexander Huls Boston Globe Oct 2021 Permalink
Jay Caspian Kang is a contributor at New York Times Magazine. His new book is The Loneliest Americans.
”I have a lot of thoughts and talk to people to make sure my thoughts are right, or change them because I think they're wrong. What more does one want out of an intellectual life? It's good work.”
Oct 2021 Permalink
Troughout his life, Hernández has been known as one thing: a soccer player. But last year, that identifier stopped being enough.
Mirin Fader The Ringer Oct 2021 Permalink
How morality and geography crystalize in Arkansas.
Alice Driver Bitter Southerner Oct 2021 20min Permalink
How franchises became the movie business.
Mark Harris Grantland Dec 2014 20min Permalink
Inside the right-wing romance With Hungary.
Elisabeth Zerofsky The New York Times Magazine Oct 2021 25min Permalink
A last-gasp FEMA camp for wildfire survivors tests the government’s obligations to the displaced.
Hannah Dreier Washington Post Oct 2021 30min Permalink
In just a few years, a Michigan woman took in millions of dollars, faking adoptions and ruining families’ lives along the way.
Sheelah Kolhatkar New Yorker Oct 2021 Permalink
In late 2018, Pittsburgh’s Jewish community was mourning the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history. Then a stranger and his family landed in their midst.
An adventure on an Alaskan glacier with a new best friend.
Inside Alden Global Capital.
McKay Coppins The Atlantic Oct 2021 Permalink
On the invisible labor that makes media work.
Alex Sujong Laughlin Study Hall Oct 2021 25min Permalink
For the past two decades, the micronation of Westarctica has grown in prominence—and is now using its power for something other than Antarctic domination.
Katherine LaGrave Afar Oct 2021 15min Permalink
The system for testing pharmaceuticals in the US relies on contractors adhering to strict guidelines. But one of them chose profits over protocols.
Brendan I. Koerner Wired Oct 2021 35min Permalink
Church-loving surf instructor Matthew Taylor Coleman fell into online conspiracy theories, then allegedly admitted to killing his kids to save the world. How did no one see it coming?
Kevin T. Dugan Rolling Stone Oct 2021 15min Permalink
393 Powell Street was a peaceful home until residents started dying in brutal, mysterious ways.
Greg Donahue New York Oct 2021 35min Permalink
American anti-trafficking groups often make impossible-to-verify claims. Now, they’re doing it in the aftermath of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Tim Marchman, Anna Merlan Vice Oct 2021 25min Permalink
Buca was a big-ticket darling of the Toronto restaurant scene. How did it wind up $35 million in debt?
Chris Nuttall-Smith Toronto Life Sep 2021 Permalink
Mary Roach is the author of seven nonfiction books, including her latest, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law.
"In these realms of the taboo, there's a tremendous amount of material that is really interesting, but that people have stayed away from. ... I'm kind of a bottom feeder. It's down there on the bottom where people don't want to go. But if that's what it takes to find interesting, new material, I'm fine with it. I don't care. I'm not easily grossed out. I don't feel that there's any reason why we shouldn't look at this. And over time, I started to feel that ... the taboo was preventing people from having conversations that it would be healthy to have."
Oct 2021 Permalink
A comedian’s relationship with his body.
E. Alex Jung New York Oct 2021 Permalink
Black people formed one of the largest militias in the U.S. Now its leader is in prosecutors’ crosshairs.
Will Carless, Alain Stephens The Trace Oct 2021 30min Permalink
How the Assad regime tracked and killed Marie Colvin for reporting on war crimes in Syria.
Ryan Gallagher, Johnny Dwyer The Intercept Apr 2018 15min Permalink
Próspera was supposed to be a privatized, Silicon Valley-funded paradise—but it’s a hard sell for the neighbors.
Ian MacDougall, Isabelle Simpson Rest of World Oct 2021 30min Permalink
The musician, producer and archivist is driven by one thing: a mission to spread the joy of Black music.
Jazmine Hughes The New York Times Magazine Oct 2021 30min Permalink