The End of Kindness: Weev and the Cult of the Angry Young Man
The prevalence of online threats against women and why the people who make them go unpunished.
The prevalence of online threats against women and why the people who make them go unpunished.
Greg Sandoval The Verge Sep 2013 15min Permalink
A profile of Chencho Dorji, Bhutan’s first psychiatrist, who has treated “more than 5,300 depressed, anxious, psychotic and drug-addled” people since 1999.
Jennifer Yang The Toronto Star Sep 2013 15min Permalink
An update to Into the Wild.
Jon Krakauer New Yorker Sep 2013 10min Permalink
From bombs to a boxer, variations on a name.
Nate Hopper The Awl Sep 2013 10min Permalink
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How the Keystone XL became the defining environmental test of Obama’s presidency.
Ryan Lizza New Yorker Sep 2013 35min Permalink
On Westmont College, a “feeder school” to the upper ranks of the Christian conservative movement.
Jeff Sharlet Killing the Buddha Sep 2013 25min Permalink
On lucha libre’s exóticos, “wrestlers who dress in drag and kiss their rivals, never quite revealing whether the joke is on their opponents, themselves or conservative Mexican society at large.”
Eric Nusbaum ESPN Sep 2013 10min Permalink
Nancy Jo Sales writes for Vanity Fair and is the author of The Bling Ring.
"I'm a mom now, so my life's a little different. I can't do certain things that I used to do, and I won't, because they're dangerous or ridiculous or keep me out till five in the morning or whatever. But back in those days, I didn't even have a pet. This was everything I did. This was my whole life, this passion to find out these things, and do these things, and see these things, and have these adventures and be able to report about this street life that rarely gets talked about. I just didn't really have a lot of boundaries in those days. I don't think I had any, really. And if you really throw yourself into something, you can get a great story. You can also not have a life of your own."
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“They cruise the city in chauffeured cars, blasting rap, selling pot to classmates. How some of New York’s richest kids joined forces with some of its poorest.”
Nancy Jo Sales New York Dec 1996 20min Permalink
A five-part investigation into “private re-homing,” in which adoptive parents give their problem children away with the help of internet message boards.
Megan Twohey Reuters Sep 2013 1h Permalink
On the lives of the men who gang-raped a woman on a Delhi bus last year, the life of their victim, and the people left out of India’s growing prosperity.
Jason Burke The Guardian Sep 2013 30min Permalink
What happens when a pacemaker outlives the brain.
Katy Butler New York Times Jun 2010 20min Permalink
“Will you show me all of the man-in-the-street, sympathetic, mayoral candidates? The last time I met one of them on the subway was a long time ago. Let’s not get too carried away.”
Chris Smith New York Sep 2013 25min Permalink
How A+E’s CEO is navigating the new TV environment with hit shows like “Duck Dynasty.”
Felix Gillette Businessweek Jun 2013 15min Permalink
A collection of reporting from inside slaughterhouses, car dealerships, and an 1800s insane asylum.
A year and a half with Candace Desmond-Woods, whose husband, and Iraq war veteran, suffers from PTSD and alcoholism.
Christopher Goffard The Los Angeles Times Sep 2013 25min Permalink
The quiet life of Brigette Höss, 80, whose father ran Auschwitz.
Thomas Harding Washington Post Sep 2013 10min Permalink
On life with amnesia and the role that music plays in memory.
Oliver Sacks New Yorker Sep 2007 30min Permalink
A profile of Cormac McCarthy–on the verge of fame.
Robert Draper Texas Monthly Jul 1992 10min Permalink
A profile of the NFL quarterback gone bust.
John Cagney Nash Playboy Sep 2013 20min Permalink
On the road with Johnson Zeng, who buys up the metal “Americans won’t or can’t be bothered to recycle.”
Adam Minter Businessweek Aug 2013 10min Permalink
Why a former Anonymous spokesperson was arrested for, among other things, copying and pasting a link.
Alexander Zaitchik Rolling Stone Sep 2013 25min Permalink
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A profile of Richard Avedon published early in his career.
Winthrop Sargeant New Yorker Nov 1958 35min
A profile of Grace Coddington, creative director of Vogue and break-out star of The September Issue.
Julie Kavanagh Intelligent Life Jan 2010 10min
A profile of André Leon Talley, an “imposing, if improbable, fashion landmark.”
A profile of Anna Wintour.
Joshua Levine WSJ Mar 2011 20min
A profile of teenage fashion blogger Tavi Gevinson published before she launched Rookie.
Lizzie Widdicombe New Yorker Sep 2010 25min
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A two-week island experience involving a 70-year-old interloper, his mannequin girlfriend, a couple of dogs and very little else.
Kent Russell The New Republic Sep 2013 35min Permalink