A Fish for Our Time
After being extinct for 70 million years, the coelacanth came back to life.
After being extinct for 70 million years, the coelacanth came back to life.
Samantha Weinberg Intelligent Life Nov 2013 20min Permalink
Decades later, U.S.-backed dictator Hissène Habré faces justice.
Michael Bronner Foreign Policy Jan 2014 20min Permalink
The rise of an expensive, experimental stem-cell treatment in China and the medical tourism it attracts.
Andrés Grippo Matter Jan 2014 15min Permalink
Investigating the murder of a friend and colleague.
Asra Q. Nomani Washingtonian Jan 2014 30min Permalink
At one time, a whole generation of New York Times reporters wished they could write like McCandlish Phillips. Then he left them all for God.
Ken Auletta New Yorker Jan 1997 20min Permalink
The improbable life and career of the sculptor-turned-musician.
Mark Binelli New York Times Magazine Jan 2014 20min Permalink
An oral history of Swingers.
Alex French, Howie Kahn Grantland Jan 2014 Permalink
This guide is sponsored by Gary Shteyngart's Little Failure, the best-seller published this month by Random House. Hailed as a "memoir for the ages" by Mary Karr, Little Failure tells the story of Shteyngart's American immigrant experience, moving back and forth through time and memory with self-deprecating humor, moving insights, and literary bravado. Buy it today.</p>
Should you need further convincing, here is a collection of some of Shteyngart's best non-fiction:</em>
An excerpt from Little Failure.
A trip to Azerbaijan.
Travel & Leisure Sep 2005 15min
Confessions of a Google Glass Explorer.
New Yorker Aug 2013 20min
The author on his love for the Russian language.
The Threepenny Review Apr 2004 20min
A profile of M.I.A.
GQ Jul 2010 25min
The night it all went wrong.
New Yorker Jun 2013 10min
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Meggett was an All-Pro running back for the New York Giants. He was also a serial rapist.
Greg Hanlon SB Nation Jan 2014 45min Permalink
Roger D. Hodge is the editor of Oxford American.
"My career isn't all that interesting insofar as I've been an editor. I'm much more interested in talking about writers and stories. That's the main thing: telling these stories, creating this platform, this context for the best possible storytelling."
Thanks to TinyLetter and Random House for sponsoring this week's episode.
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A profile of the Hot 97 DJ a few months after “he told the truth about who he is, even if it’s not entirely clear—even to Mister Cee himself, even now, to this day—what exactly that truth is.”
Zach Baron GQ Feb 2014 15min Permalink
Moe Tucker narrates her time drumming in the Velvet Underground.
Legs McNeil Vice Jan 2014 15min Permalink
Sponsored
Our sponsor this week is Little Failure, the new memoir by Gary Shteyngart. Already a New York Times bestseller, Little Failure tells the story of Shteyngart's American immigrant experience, moving back and forth through time and memory with self-deprecating humor, moving insights, and literary bravado. The result is a resonant story of family and belonging that feels epic and intimate and distinctly his own.
Mary Karr called Little Failure "a memoir for the ages." The Millions dubbed Shteyngart the "Chekhov-Roth-Apatow of Queens." And Nathan Eglander said the book is so honest "Dr. Freud would be proud."
Buy Little Failure today or read an exclusive excerpt on Longform.
Finding personal stories buried deep in the YouTube comments.
Mark Slutsky Buzzfeed Jan 2014 15min Permalink
How “Do What You Love” devalues actual work.
Miya Tokumitsu Jacobin Jan 2014 10min Permalink
On the problems in “Dr. V’s Magical Putter.”
Christina Kahrl Grantland Jan 2014 10min Permalink
How the ski town of the super-rich is responding to global warming.
Nathaniel Rich Men's Journal Jan 2014 30min Permalink
A physician reports on his own catastrophic injury.
Arnold Relman New York Review of Books Jan 2014 15min Permalink
A collection of picks about the pills we swallow and the people who make them, take them and sell them.</p>
To his friends and family, Ross Ulbricht was a compassionate, warm soul known for random acts of kindness. To the F.B.I., he was Dread Pirate Roberts, the mastermind behind the Silk Road who was willing to order hits to protect his black market operation.
David Segal New York Times Jan 2014 20min Permalink
A profile of Barack Obama as he turns toward the finish line.
David Remnick New Yorker Jan 2014 1h5min Permalink
Twenty years after its premiere, the filmmakers and subjects look back at “the great American documentary.”
Jason Guerrasio The Dissolve Jan 2014 1h Permalink
An unlikely bipartisan alliance attempts to get Yes into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
David Rowell Washington Post Dec 2013 15min Permalink
One man’s quest to have a healthy leg amputated.
Anil Ananthaswamy Matter Nov 2012 30min Permalink
“There is only one given: On the afternoon of August 16, a 22-year-old from Australia named Christopher Lane, who had come to America to go to college and play baseball, went out running and, without warning or knowing why, was shot to death in Duncan.”
Buzz Bissinger Vanity Fair Jan 2014 30min Permalink