‘And I Cannot Lie’
An oral history of Sir Mix-a-Lot’s ‘Baby Got Back.’
An oral history of Sir Mix-a-Lot’s ‘Baby Got Back.’
The life of a mid-level bookie.
Doug Brown Cleveland Scene Dec 2013 20min Permalink
A move to Los Angeles and a foray into the bourgeoisie.
Megan Daum BlackBook Apr 2004 15min Permalink
Investigating the murder of a Costa Rican conservationist.
Matthew Power Outside Jan 2014 20min Permalink
Unraveling a lucrative crime ring.
Adam Higginbotham Businessweek Jan 2014 15min Permalink
A profile of Evgeny Morozov, “either the most astute, feared, loathed, or useless writer about digital technology working today.”
Michael Meyer Columbia Journalism Review Jan 2013 20min Permalink
Capt. Stephen Hill became famous when he came out as a gay soldier during a 2011 GOP presidential debate. Here’s how he got to that point, and what happened after.
Christopher Goffard The Los Angeles Times Dec 2013 15min Permalink
Tonya Harding, Nancy Kerrigan and the “why me?” misheard around the world.
Sarah Marshall The Believer Jan 2014 45min Permalink
Bernie Kerik and Jack Abramoff on “Club Fed.”
Lisa DePaulo Dujour Jan 2014 Permalink
John Aldridge fell overboard in the middle of the night, 40 miles from shore, and the Coast Guard was looking in the wrong place. How did he survive?
Paul Tough New York Times Magazine Jan 2014 30min Permalink
Did Remington Chase and Stefan Martirosian “orchestrate” a contract killing in Moscow?
Gene Maddaus LA Weekly Jan 2014 20min Permalink
How the Syrian president stays in power.
Annia Ciezadlo The New Republic Dec 2013 20min Permalink
The reality TV star today.
Simon van Zuylen-Wood Philadelphia Magazine Dec 2013 20min Permalink
In 1997, 8-year-old Chaneya Kelly reported that she had been raped by her father, Daryl Kelly, sending him to prison for up to 40 years. Since then, she’s wanted more than anything to take it back.
Jennifer Gonnerman New York Dec 2013 20min Permalink
Space is only getting weirder.
Corey S. Powell Nautilus Dec 2013 15min Permalink
“It’s Tuesday, it’s February, it’s my first day back at work after a week on vacation. I notice the candle in the foyer just as the whoosh of the door blows it out. They never did that for my birthday, I think as I walk past reception.”
Michael Hobbes The Billfold Dec 2013 10min Permalink
A profile of the first and only transgender MMA fighter.
Nancy Hass GQ Dec 2013 20min Permalink
Arts Crime History World Movies & TV
On Benjamin Murmelstein, the head of the council of elders at the Theresienstadt concentration camp.
Mark Lilla New York Review of Books Dec 2013 20min Permalink
Rethinking Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil.
Mark Lilla New York Review of Books Nov 2013 15min Permalink
A bungled operation in Honduras and the enduring ineffectiveness of America’s war on drugs.
Mattathias Schwartz New Yorker Jan 2014 35min Permalink
A trip to the 2022 World Cup host nation.
David Roth SB Nation Dec 2013 1h Permalink
Investigating the murky reality behind the attack in Libya.
David D. Kirkpatrick New York Times Dec 2013 10min Permalink
Arriving in China at 23, Sidney Rittenberg spent 35 years as a “friend, confidante, translator, and journalist” for the Communist Party’s top leaders. In this interview, he recalls both his friendship with Chairman Mao and the 16 years he spent in solitary confinement.
Matt Schiavenza The Atlantic Dec 2013 20min Permalink
The rise and fall of the new oligarchs, who raided the Russian state. When Putin came to power most fled, but not Mikhail Khodorkovsky: “The other oligarchs, when they saw the fuzz, knew they should run. But Khodorkovsky forgot.”
Keith Gessen London Review of Books Feb 2010 25min Permalink
On the neurobiology of flora.
Michael Pollan New Yorker Dec 2013 40min Permalink