Sleeping Together
A visit to Tokyo’s first co-sleeping cafe, where one can pay a set fee to sleep next to a woman in 20 minute increments, though spooning, being patted on the head, and a change of pajamas are extra.
A visit to Tokyo’s first co-sleeping cafe, where one can pay a set fee to sleep next to a woman in 20 minute increments, though spooning, being patted on the head, and a change of pajamas are extra.
Gideon Lewis-Kraus Harper's Aug 2013 10min Permalink
A eulogy of sorts for the King.
Lester Bangs Village Voice Aug 1977 10min Permalink
A case of mistaken identity and the incarceration of an innocent man.
Benjamin Weiser New York Times Magazine Aug 2000 30min Permalink
Renting in one of the most expensive American cities.
Lauren Smiley San Francisco Aug 2013 20min Permalink
On not making the NBA.
Kiese Laymon ESPN Aug 2013 10min Permalink
How volunteer firefighters responded to a lethal West, Texas explosion.
Katy Vine Texas Monthly Sep 2013 35min Permalink
A profile of the actor.
Alex Witchel New York Times Magazine Aug 2013 15min Permalink
The life and death of a reporter.
Gene Maddaus LA Weekly Aug 2013 25min Permalink
“In the computer age, it is not hard to imagine how a computing machine might construct, store and spit out the information that ‘I am alive, I am a person, I have memories, the wind is cold, the grass is green,’ and so on. But how does a brain become aware of those propositions? “
Michael Graziano Aeon Aug 2013 15min Permalink
Joshuah Bearman is the co-founder of Epic Magazine and a freelance writer. His latest story is "Coronado High."
"People who know me well will realize that parts of this story are actually about me. … It's about loss of innocence and getting to a certain point in your life where you realize the excitement of youth is over. Life at a certain point gets complicated and there are consequences and things get hard. These are people who dealt with those consequences in a way that I never did — they had to go to prison or destroy their friends lives — but that's what I liked about this story. It's a true crime story, but it became universal when I realized that there is this emotional experience that these characters go through that anybody can relate to."
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Aug 2013 Permalink
A briefing on drone warfare.
Mark Bowden The Atlantic Aug 2013 40min Permalink
On the job with America’s senior citizen letter carriers.
Tom Moroney Bloomberg Aug 2013 10min Permalink
“Professional boxing is the only major American sport whose primary, and often murderous, energies are not coyly deflected by such artifacts as balls and pucks.”
Joyce Carol Oates New York Review of Books Feb 1992 15min Permalink
A profile of the saxophone player at 82.
Mark Jacobson Men's Journal Sep 2013 25min Permalink
What kind of New York is Mayor Mike leaving behind?
Ken Auletta New Yorker Aug 2013 35min Permalink
A father and his 9-year-old daughter watch Harvard play Yale in football.
George Plimpton Sports Illustrated Nov 1981 Permalink
On the slaughter of songbirds migrating across the Mediterranean.
Jonathan Franzen National Geographic Jul 2013 25min Permalink
How MSG became “perhaps the most infamously misunderstood and maligned three letters in the history of food.”
John Mahoney Buzzfeed Aug 2013 25min Permalink
Roy Petersen was blind in one eye, had two replaced hips, and was twice divorced. His job was to solve a gold mine robbery case in the Peruvian Andes. He would need some help.
Joshua Davis Epic Aug 2013 Permalink
Paris Hilton, Princeton phonies, and the prince who blew through billions—a collection of articles on young money.
The story of a machine.
Carolyn de la Peña Boom Apr 2013 10min Permalink
On Martha Stewart, business icon.
Joan Didion New Yorker Feb 2000 20min Permalink
The house at 114 Lake Avenue in Bristol, CT that kept calling Aaron Hernandez, a NFL star by 20, back to “a volatile underworld of guns, drugs, and violence.”
Bob Hohler Boston Globe Aug 2013 10min Permalink
Her grandfather, she found out decades after he died, was not her grandfather. Who did that make her?
Molly Minturn The Toast Aug 2013 15min Permalink
Two white security contractors set off into the remote interior. Within a week, a seemingly innocent man who crossed their path lay dead on the side of the road. The manhunt began.
James Bamford GQ Nov 2012 35min Permalink