Going Hungry at the Most Prestigious MFA in America
Making ends meet in Iowa City.
A Culture of No
How one immigration court in Texas has shut the door on those seeking refuge in America.
Rock Magic
A conversation between Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page and William Burroughs.
The City That Had Too Much Money
Known abroad primarily for its stunning Pacific Coast setting and athletic lifestyle, the city [Vancouver] has since become one of the world’s largest sluices for questionable funds moving from Asia into Western economies.
Stop, Thief
Did Uber steal Google’s intellectual property?
The Comedians, The Mob and the American Supperclub
It didn't matter if these clubs were in Cleveland, Portland, Corpus Christi or Baton Rouge—if it was a nightclub, the owners were the Mob. For a good forty years the Mob controlled American show business.
Enes Kanter Contains Multitudes
The 26-year-old is many things: New York Knicks center, devout Muslim, star of #NBATwitter, and enemy of the Turkish state.
The Sunburnt Country
Whiteness as disease in a skin-cancer ridden Australia.
Interviewing Lou Reed: Not a Perfect Day
An interview gone awry.
Melissa McCarthy Wants to Cheer You Up
She’s trying to keep comedy alive at a moment when Hollywood—and its audience—can’t seem to crack a smile.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The International Congress for Kids Whose Dads Are Commie Draft Dodgers"
Children engage in their own democratic process.
Inside the Mind of a Voyeur
Pete Forde was a good landlord and a great friend, or so his tenants thought. Then they discovered he was filming them in their most private moments.
Living in the Present with John Prine
A profile.
How the West Was Digitized
The making of Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption 2.
Lisa Brennan-Jobs is a New York-based writer. Her new book is Small Fry.
"You find yourself in a whole net, in a constellation of stories, each one connecting to another. It was amazing how much I remembered. Sometimes I meet people and they say, goodness, I can’t even remember what I had for lunch. How can you remember so much? And I think, oh, sit down for a while writing badly and you will remember and remember and remember. Some things weren’t terribly pleasant to remember. And some things were incredibly wonderful."
Thanks to MailChimp, Under My Skin, Skagen, Sleeping Beauty Dreams, and Pitt Writers for sponsoring this week's episode.
Rainbow Farm: The Domestic Siege That Time Forgot
A week before 9/11, a five-day standoff at a 34-acre campground in rural Michigan that been the site of marijuana festivals ended with the killing of the couple that owned it, Tom Crosslin, 46, and Rolland “Rollie” Rohm, 28.
The FBI of the National Park Service
When a day hike in Rocky Mountain National Park ended in a grisly death, Investigative Services Branch veteran Beth Shott hit the trail, where she began unraveling a harrowing case.
Instagram Has a Massive Harassment Problem
Rethinking “the internet’s kindest place.”
Gabrielle Hamilton and Ashley Merriman Dreamed of Writing the Second Chapter in the #MeToo Story
Instead, they got scorched.
The Prophets of Cryptocurrency Survey the Boom and Bust
Inside the ongoing argument over whether Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the blockchain are transforming the world.
'Some of Us Have Got to Die'
What the 1949 film Twelve O’Clock High still tells us about air combat and the burden of command.
Forging the Oregon Trail
Forty years ago, a trio of student teachers created the most popular educational game of all-time.
The Man Who Broke Politics
Newt Gingrich turned partisan battles into bloodsport and now he’s reveling in his achievements.
The People Who Moved to Chernobyl
The families who are choosing to live in the exclusion zone’s ghost villages and nearby.
Video games: The Addiction
Tom Bissell was an acclaimed young writer when he started playing Grand Theft Auto. For the last three years he has been sleep deprived, cocaine fueled, and barely able to write a word—and he has no regrets.
