L.A. to Nepal
The work of California Task Force Two, the “Seal Team Six of disaster aid.”
The work of California Task Force Two, the “Seal Team Six of disaster aid.”
Vince Beiser California Sunday Jul 2015 Permalink
The intricacies of a delicate operation.
Henry Marsh The Lit Hub Jun 2015 30min Permalink
Secrets, dangers, and murder in a German police state.
"Andreas didn’t know what to say. What he wanted was for her to come and live in the basement of the rectory with him. He could protect her, home-school her, practice English with her, train her as a counsellor for at-risk youth, and be her friend, the way King Lear imagined being friends with Cordelia, following the news of the court from a distance, laughing at who was in, who was out. Maybe in time they’d be a couple, the couple in the basement, leading their own private life."
Jonathan Franzen New Yorker Jun 2015 1h5min Permalink
The rewards and pitfalls of selling haunted objects.
Rick Paulas The Awl Jun 2015 15min Permalink
Two bodies wash up in Northern Europe, wearing identical wetsuits. The search for their identities leads authorities to a camp in Calais.
Anders Fjellberg, Tomm W. Christiansen Dagbladet Jun 2015 40min Permalink
Rembert Browne is a staff writer at Grantland.
“I'm ok with not being at my most refined online at all times. It's happening in real time and some of that is therapeutic. I could write a lot this stuff privately, but I'd rather just hit publish and see what happens. It's a weird world. But I'm super deep in.”
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On the penalties imposed – or not – on prison guards who have sex with inmates.
Alysia Santo The Marshall Project Jun 2015 10min Permalink
A nation strips 210,000 of citizenship and sets the stage for mass deportations.
Rachel Nolan Harper's May 2015 30min Permalink
How a bid to unseat Senator Thad Cochran led to an illegal photo in a nursing home, a flurry of arrests, and the death of the man who brought the Tea Party to Mississippi.
Marin Cogan New York Jun 2015 20min Permalink
On being South Africa’s “public protector,” charged with watching over the people who once liberated it.
Alexis Okeowo New York Times Magazine Jun 2015 20min Permalink
The “insane playfulness, deliberate infantilism, nutty haikus, naked stripteases, free-form chants and literary war dances of the beats” and their leader.
Seymour Krim Shake It For the World, Smartass Jun 1970 35min Permalink
Tracking the humble hummingbird down to Belize.
Beth Ann Fennelly Garden & Gun Jun 2015 10min Permalink
A profile of Moktar Belmoktar, Al-Qaida’s “most difficult employee,” who was responsible for a major attack on an Algerian BP plant and, according to U.S. and Libyan forces, was killed in an air strike on Sunday.
Rukmini Callimachi AP May 2013 10min Permalink
A dispatch from Eloise Woods, a natural burial ground where bodies are consigned directly to the earth.
Sarah Wambold Texas Observer Jun 2015 15min Permalink
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The legalizing of euthanasia is usually seen as a advancement in human rights. But is it appropriate for cases of non-terminal illness?
Rachel Aviv New Yorker Jun 2015 35min Permalink
The actress Tilda Swinton found herself dissatisfied with the schools available for her twins. So she founded her own.
Aaron Hicklin The Guardian Jun 2015 15min Permalink
On the enduring appeal, both amateur and academic, of man vs. dinosaur.
Bryan Curtis Grantland Oct 2011 10min Permalink
Scenes of grief, from the sister of comedian Harris Wittels.
Stephanie Wittels Wachs Medium Jun 2015 15min Permalink
The comic failings of a Kickstarter project that promised a “Netflix for vinyl.”
Michael Nelson Stereogum May 2015 10min Permalink
Tracing Europe’s migrant crisis to organized crime.
Alex Perry, Connie Agius Newsweek Europe Jun 2015 25min Permalink
An excerpt from the best-selling true crime book of all time.
Vincent Bugliosi Helter Skelter Jan 1974 40min Permalink
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A profile of the world’s best League of Legends player, a 19-year-old Korean kid whose nickname is God.
Mina Kimes ESPN the Magazine 10min
The truncated, violent lives of Richard Matt and David Sweat before their prison escape.
A 38,000-word answer.
The inside story of the coup that has brought the world’s most feared terrorist network to the brink of collapse.
Utah has become the capital of the modern snake oil industry, with dozens of get-rich-quick schemes—also known as “multi-level marketing”—filling its office parks.
On the man who has turned the grunt work of packing into a social media phenomenon.
Carolyn Kormann New Yorker Jun 2015 10min Permalink
An oral history with former employees Sasha Frere-Jones, Alysia Abbott, Piotr Orlov, and Chris Wilcha.
Annie Zaleski AV Club Jun 2015 35min Permalink