The Watcher
The haunting of 657 Boulevard in Westfield, New Jersey.
The haunting of 657 Boulevard in Westfield, New Jersey.
Reeves Wiedeman New York Nov 2018 20min Permalink
How words kept the author’s grandparents connected during the Second World War.
Haley Rustad The Walrus Nov 2018 15min Permalink
Searching for the star behind Dlisted.
Soraya Roberts Jezebel Nov 2018 10min Permalink
The predatory trainer may have just taken down USA Gymnastics. How did he deceive so many for so long?
Kerry Howley New York Nov 2018 20min Permalink
Stan Lee supercharged Marvel Comics into one of the most important cultural forces on the planet. But how much credit does he really deserve?
Spencer Ackerman The Daily Beast Nov 2018 30min Permalink
Inside the effort to prevent migrant deaths at the US-Mexico border.
Eric Reidy IRIN Nov 2018 25min Permalink
Richard Carr, a retired psychologist who had long dreamed of sailing around the world, was in the middle of the Pacific when he started sending frantic messages that said pirates were boarding his boat. Two thousand miles away in Los Angeles, his family woke up to a nightmare: he might be dying alone, and there was almost nothing they could do about it.
Ali Carr Troxell Outside Nov 2018 35min Permalink
Searching for answers after unexplained brain injuries afflicted dozens of American diplomats and spies.
Adam Entous, Jon Lee Anderson New Yorker Nov 2018 45min Permalink
The true story of M Company: from Fort Dix to Vietnam in 50 days.
The inspiring life and mysterious death of NBA player Bison Dele.
Chris Ballard Sports Illustrated Oct 2013 40min Permalink
A profile of Bonnie “Prince” Billy.
Alex Pappademas GQ Nov 2018 20min Permalink
The company has been battling its store owners for years, using tactics that include planting hidden cameras and and tailing franchisees in unmarked vehicles. It seems to have found a new tool: U.S. immigration authorities.
Lauren Etter, Michael Smith Businessweek Nov 2018 15min Permalink
The story of a lynching in rural CO in 1900, while hundreds watched, done with the complicity of press and cops, and why it still resonates today.
Alan Prendergast Westword Nov 2018 25min Permalink
It’s dangerous to blame the decline of one species on a single predator. We humans like to do it anyway.
Katherine Gammon Hakai Magazine Oct 2018 15min Permalink
Pope Benedict XVI’s post-retirement presence in the Vatican has set the stage for a conflict that threatens to split the Catholic Church into two.
John Cornwell Vanity Fair Nov 2018 25min Permalink
Successful SoundCloud rapper. Genre-bending artist. You may or may not know Post Malone. Here are some little-known facts that will help you get to know him.
Jeff Weiss Washington Post Oct 2018 10min Permalink
An arrangement of convenience in early 20th century Alaska.
Leigh Newman Electric Literature Nov 2018 Permalink
The death of a submissive man-pup and the scrotal silicone injection that killed him.
Daniel Villarreal The Stranger Nov 2018 25min Permalink
Two people went for a hike on the Appalachian Trail. Only one made it out.
Earl Swift Outside Nov 2018 30min Permalink
Paige Williams is a New Yorker staff writer and the author of The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy.
“I was just sitting in a coffee shop and saw this thing about a Montana dinosaur thief, and thought, oh that’s really interesting, I don’t know anything about that. And I knew nothing about natural history, nothing about natural history museums. I was born and raised in Mississippi. We didn’t talk about that kind of stuff. I grew up in the Baptist church. It certainly wasn’t mentioned there. … It just was a world completely alien to me, which I love. I love going into worlds that I know nothing about, and I like to take them apart and put them back together again.”
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Nov 2018 Permalink
New research is zeroing in on a biochemical basis for the placebo effect — possibly opening a Pandora’s box for Western medicine.
Gary Greenberg New York Times Magazine Nov 2018 25min Permalink
On the world’s (then) largest online community.
Katie Hafner Wired May 1997 1h20min Permalink
Deliberate isolation. Petty feuds. Constant turmoil. The Manchester United manager wouldn’t have it any other way.
Sam Borden ESPN FC Nov 2018 20min Permalink
Inside Tesla’s factory, a medical clinic designed to ignore injured workers.
Will Evans Reveal Nov 2018 30min Permalink
Ezra Miller is the gender-bending, goat delivering Hollywood star of the future.
Allie Jones GQ Style Nov 2018 20min Permalink