The Passion of Questlove
The musician, producer and archivist is driven by one thing: a mission to spread the joy of Black music.
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
The Christian organization Teen Challenge, made up of more than a thousand centers, claims to reform troubled teens. But is its discipline more like abuse?
Rachel Aviv New Yorker Oct 2021 Permalink
For half a century, she has taken the things we know best— our bodies, our rituals, our nation — and shown us how strange they really are.
Sam Anderson New York Times Magazine Oct 2016 25min Permalink
Judge Donna Scott Davenport oversees a juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, Tennessee, with a staggering history of jailing children. She said kids must face consequences, which rarely seem to apply to her or the other adults in charge.
Meribah Knight, Ken Armstrong ProPublica Oct 2021 45min Permalink
Biologists are rescuing baby sharks and skates from recently caught females, giving the unborn a chance at survival.
Claudia Geib Hakai Magazine Oct 2021 15min Permalink
Nearly a decade ago, Marie Calloway’s debut book, what purpose did i serve in your life, thrilled and repulsed readers. Then she vanished from public life. I tried to find her.
Scaachi Koul Buzzfeed Oct 2021 20min Permalink
On those rare instances when I would think about having a child, I assumed her life would be less complicated than my own. The stubborn optimism of the immigrant dictates that while your own life often shows just how quickly things can get catastrophically worse, American progress remains immutable.
Jay Caspian Kang New York Times Magazine Oct 2021 30min Permalink
The constant discomfort of a genital injury creates a covenant of pain. It is impossible to think about anything else.
Gary Shteyngart New Yorker Oct 2021 30min Permalink
We don’t often talk about how a paper’s collapse makes people feel: less connected, more alone.
Elaine Godfrey The Atlantic Oct 2021 15min Permalink
One America News, the far-right network whose fortunes and viewership rose amid the triumph and tumult of the Trump administration, has flourished with support from a surprising source: AT&T
John Shiffman Reuters Oct 2021 15min Permalink
Daniel Kish is entirely sightless. So how can he ride a bike on busy streets? Go hiking for days alone? By using a technique borrowed from bats.
Michael Finkel Men's Journal May 2012 25min Permalink
E. Alex Jung is a senior writer for Vulture and New York.
”When I'm in that space, I try to be a sponge. I'll just absorb whatever's happening or going on, and I'll be down to do mostly anything. I was actually thinking recently about what my limits would be in a profile. I was like—heroin? I don't think I would do that.”
Oct 2021 Permalink
On the writer W.G. Sebald.
Ben Lerner New York Review of Books Oct 2021 Permalink
Art often draws inspiration from life—but what happens when it’s your life?
Robert Kolker New York Times Magazine Oct 2021 30min Permalink
In 1992, thousands of furious, drunken cops descended on City Hall—and changed New York history.
Laura Nahmias New York Oct 2021 20min Permalink
In November 1985, a woman who appeared to be a homeless drifter staked out the offices of 80-year-old banker Nicholas Deak, waited until he returned from lunch, then executed Deak and his secretary. As police wrestled her to the floor, she said “Don’t hurt me. He told me I could carry the gun.”
Mark Ames, Alexander Zaitchik Salon Dec 2012 25min Permalink
Introducing the real Will Smith.
Wesley Lowery GQ Oct 2021 25min Permalink
Notes on humiliation.
Vivian Gornick Harper's Oct 2021 15min Permalink
Stranded in Yemen’s war zone, a decaying supertanker has more than a million barrels of oil aboard. If—or when—it explodes or sinks, thousands may die.
Ed Caeser New Yorker Oct 2021 35min Permalink
For eight years, a man without a memory lived among strangers at a hospital in Mississippi. But was recovering his identity the happy ending he was looking for?
Laura Todd Carns The Atavist Oct 2021 35min Permalink
Paul was in his 80s when someone called to say she was his daughter, conceived in a fertility clinic with his sperm. The only problem? He’d never donated any.
Jenny Kleeman Guardian Sep 2021 25min Permalink
At Moody Bible Institute, purity culture and complementarianism have worked together to forgive abusers and punish the abused.
Becca Andrews Mother Jones Sep 2021 35min Permalink
After decades of mismanaging its nuclear waste, the US Department of Energy wrestles with its toxic legacy.
Lois Parshley Virginia Quarterly Review Oct 2021 40min Permalink
On the veracity of documentary filmmaking.
Blair McClendon The Drift Sep 2021 20min Permalink
Fossils have become a hot new asset class. Paleontologists aren’t thrilled, but for Clayton Phipps and his peers, it’s a living.
Andrew Zaleski Bloomberg Businessweek Sep 2021 20min Permalink