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How sunken treasure and a sibling rivalry led Charles and John Deane to invent modern deep-sea diving.
Undercover at a placement agency and then at a Georgia Chinese restaurant and its employee dorm.
An American wife's keen unhappiness on her European honeymoon.
“Those who were born in the U.S.S.R. and those born after its collapse do not share a common experience,” wrote Svetlana Alexievich, who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 2015. “It’s like they’re from different planets.”
The country has become repressive in a way that it has not been since the Cultural Revolution. What does its darkening political climate—and growing belligerence—mean for the United States?
Kyle Chayka is a freelance writer who writes for Businessweek, The Verge, Racked, The New Yorker, and more.
“I love that idea of form and content being the same. I want to write about lifestyle in a lifestyle magazine. I want to critique technology in the form of technology, and kind of have the piece be this infiltrating force that explodes from within or whatever. You want something that gets into the space, and sneaks in, and then blows up.”
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A longtime Harper’s contributor considers America as he dies: “When I died, I died of many things: the failing systems; the weakening of age; the exhaustion of the long war against dying. Finally, I succumbed to the lack of ethics in a California hospital, killed by filth and neglect.”
Four Galician sisters take on the macho percebeira culture to harvest one of the world’s most expensive delicacies, the gooseneck barnacle, from the frigid sea.
Adapted from Grape, Olive, Pig: Deep Travels Through Spain’s Food Culture.
An interview with the elusive Frank Ocean.
An Italian town plagued by mysterious fires turns to science, the church, and the law in a search for answers.
Trump came out and took a lunch break, still being mobbed by cameras on the way in and out. On his way back in, I asked him how he would feel about getting picked for a jury. He paused, weighing whether to grace me with a precious sound bite. He turned to me and said, “If it happens, it happens.”
The bloody reign of Rodrigo Duterte, who was elected President of the Phillipines in May.
With the Kurdish pesh merga on the road to Mosul.
After Moneyball became a best-seller, Michael Lewis learned that many of the ideas it presented to the general public had actually been introduced decades earlier by a pair of Israeli psychologists.
Adapted from The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds.
A profile of Steve Bannon — former naval officer and Goldman Sachs banker, executive chairman of Breitbart News, founding chairman of the Government Accountability Institute, and, as of yesterday, Donald Trump’s chief White House strategist.
An Oxford philosopher pursues the formula for morality.
In order to keep running, Tom White cut off his own leg.
Real-estate mogul Charles Kushner had been cast out of power, found guilty of a strange bundle of crimes including “secretly setting up [his brother-in-law] with a prostitute, then taping the encounter.” His son Jared, then 23, was left to carry the ambition for the both of them.
Leonard Cohen’s 2 A.M. set at the disastrous Isle of Wight festival, 1970.
Susan Casey is the former editor of O and the author of three New York Times bestselling books. Her latest is Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins.
“The funny thing is people often say, ‘You must be fearless.’ I’m always afraid of whatever it is. But for whatever reason—I think it’s partly naïvety, partly just overwhelming curiosity—I am also not going to let fear stop me from doing things even if I feel it. Unless it’s that pure…you do have to listen to your body sometimes if it tells you not to do something that could result in you really never coming up from falling on that 70-foot wave.”
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An annual re-enactment drags America’s history of racist violence into the light.
An artist at the end of his life.
The 2011 Tohoku Japan earthquake and tsunami, as experienced by eight schoolchildren.
