Is Terry Richardson an Artist or a Predator?
A profile of the photographer, who has been accused by several models of sexual abuse.
A profile of the photographer, who has been accused by several models of sexual abuse.
Benjamin Wallace New York Jun 2014 30min Permalink
Inside the collapse of TelexFree, an alleged $1 billion pyramid scheme that duped investors worldwide.
Beth Healy, Nathan B. Thompson Boston Globe Jun 2014 15min Permalink
What the gospel of innovation gets wrong.
Jill Lepore New Yorker Jun 2014 25min Permalink
A wife’s notes on her husband’s last months.
Marion Coutts The Guardian Jun 2014 15min Permalink
What the neighborhood of Higher Blackley in Manchester says about “one of the least understood and most discriminated-against groups in society.”
Simon Kuper Financial Times Jun 2014 10min Permalink
Kids consider changing their personalities and relationships.
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Haruki Murakami New Yorker Jun 2014 35min Permalink
How America is trying to fight terrorism in Africa without doing any of the actual fighting.
Eliza Griswold New York Times Magazine Jun 2014 30min Permalink
A flood-fueled adventure on a forgotten stretch of the Colorado.
Rowan Jacobsen Outside Jun 2014 25min Permalink
“The case of Lisl Auman, who first wrote me from prison three years ago, is so rotten and wrong and shameful that I feel dirty just for knowing about it, and so should you.”
Hunter S. Thompson Vanity Fair Jun 2004 35min Permalink
How two boys, 10 and 11, were sentenced to years in a detention facility for a crime they didn’t get a chance to commit.
Victoria Beale Buzzfeed Jun 2014 30min Permalink
Living without your left arm.
Miles O'Brien New York Jun 2014 10min Permalink
Can neuroscience take the pain out of painful memories?
Michael Specter New Yorker May 2014 25min Permalink
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How the Ivory Coast national team helped end the country’s civil war.
Jordan Conn Grantland Jun 2014 25min
How coach Jurgen Klinsmann, “soccer’s Alexis de Tocqueville,” is trying to give the US an identity.
Matthew Futterman Wall Street Journal Jun 2014 10min
A profile of Bosnian striker Vedad Ibisevic, who has come home after escaping the war more than 20 years ago.
Wright Thompson ESPN May 2014 10min
“Someone has sliced open soccer’s hourglass, and the sand has come pouring out on to the streets.”
Supriya Nair Roads & Kingdoms May 2014
Pelé, Garrincha, and the two souls of Brazilian soccer.
Brian Phillips Grantland Jun 2014
On the complicated relationship between the world's best player and his homeland.
Jeff Himmelman New York Times Magazine Jun 2014 15min
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On “the Negro’s ambivalent relation to the Jew.”
James Baldwin Commentary Feb 1948 2h Permalink
An interview with Peter Matthiessen.
Jonathan Meiburg The Believer Jun 2014 20min Permalink
A former Eagle Scout attends the National Boy Scout Jamboree, aka Jambo, held at a brand-new, $100 million scouting wonderland called The Summit.
Rosecrans Baldwin Oxford American Jun 2014 40min Permalink
Nathaniel Rich writes for Rolling Stone, Harper's and the New York Times Magazine. His latest novel is Odds Against Tomorrow.
"I'm drawn to obsession. I think I'm an obsessive in a way, probably most writers are. It's an obsessive act to sit at a desk by yourself."
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Going undercover with David Sullivan, cult infiltrator.
Nathaniel Rich Harper's Nov 2013 30min Permalink
How Leo Sharp got busted.
Sam Dolnick New York Times Magazine Jun 2014 25min Permalink
One woman’s ghastly dollhouse dioramas turned crime scene investigation into a science.
Rachel Nuwer Slate Jun 2014 10min Permalink
How the island paradise of Seychelles became a magnet for money launderers and tax dodgers.
Britney Spears works Vegas, bitch.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner Matter Jun 2014 30min Permalink
Possible clues about Lincoln’s murder in the unlikeliest place.
How coach Jurgen Klinsmann, “soccer’s Alexis de Tocqueville,” is trying to give the US an identity.
Matthew Futterman Wall Street Journal Jun 2014 10min Permalink
The creator of Scandal and Grey’s Anatomy offers advice to the Dartmouth class of 2014.
Shonda Rhimes Dartmouth Jun 2014 15min Permalink