Harlan Ellison Isn’t Dead Yet
The cult author, 57 years into his writing career.
The cult author, 57 years into his writing career.
Jaime Lowe New York Jul 2013 10min Permalink
What remains of the past’s cutting edge.
Alexis Madrigal The Atlantic Jul 2013 10min Permalink
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A once-great golfer’s private second act.
Chip Brown Men's Journal Jun 2010 20min Permalink
An older brother’s murder and its aftermath.
Maccabee Montandon Gawker Jul 2013 35min Permalink
A mother-son bus trip from Florida to Juarez.
Jack Kerouac Holiday May 1965 10min Permalink
After a botched bank robbery in 1990, Sture Bergwall, aka Thomas Quick, confessed to a string of brutal crimes. He admitted to stabbings, stranglings, incest and cannibalism. He was convicted of eight murders in all, and after the final trial he went silent for nearly a decade. But a few years ago, Bergwall came forward again—there was one more secret he had to tell.
Chris Heath GQ Aug 2013 45min Permalink
Was justice served in Steubenville?
Ariel Levy New Yorker Aug 2013 40min Permalink
On the death of NBA star Reggie Lewis.
Ron Suskind Wall Street Journal Mar 1995 Permalink
Cycles of boom and bust in the drilling town of Williston, N.D., as seen from the perspective of an itinerant dancer filling one of three slots at the only strip club in town, Whispers.
Susan Elizabeth Shepard Buzzfeed Jul 2013 30min Permalink
Inside the women’s ward at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center.
Katherine B. Olson The Big Roundtable Jul 2013 30min Permalink
From a Tokyo smash-and-grab to driving a car through the window of a Dubai jewelry shop, how a ragtag band of Balkan thieves set a new bar for audacious heists.
A member of the Pink Panthers, Milan Poparic, escaped from prison yesterday.
David Samuels New Yorker Apr 2010 1h5min Permalink
The long road to a potential breakthrough.
Jason Fagone Philadelphia Magazine Aug 2013 Permalink
A profile of the girls basketball team at Carroll Academy, a school run by a rural Tennessee juvenile court.
John Branch New York Times Jul 2013 45min Permalink
When there are too few jobs for an entire generation.
Stephan Faris Businessweek Jul 2013 10min Permalink
On a makeshift halfway house for down-and-out former wrestlers.
The “blood sport” of classical music reviews.
John Fram Pacific Standard Jul 2013 15min Permalink
The misidentification of a Boston Marathon bomber and the future of breaking news.
Jay Caspian Kang New York Times Magazine Jul 2013 25min Permalink
On personal responsibility and privilege.
Kiese Laymon Gawker Jul 2013 10min Permalink
A 22,000-word breakdown of Kubrick’s “odyssey portraying the span of millennia.”
J. Maynard Gelinas Underground Research Initiative Jul 2013 1h30min Permalink
Robert Kolker is the author of Lost Girls and a contributing editor at New York.
"For better or for worse, my heart's not in the mystery. I want [the killer] to be caught—he's obviously a predator and he's unstable. But they all are. They're all messed up people who victimize other people and they all look normal. The art and science of catching serial killers has become more than slightly overblown in our society. And you know, I love Silence of the Lambs … but I'm not entirely sure that our obsession with who the serial killer is and why a serial killer does it is in proportion with how interesting they end up being."
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When Germany legalized prostitution just over a decade ago, politicians hoped that it would create better conditions and more autonomy for sex workers. It hasn’t worked out that way.
Der Spiegel May 2013 35min Permalink
Monica Lewinsky’s post-scandal life in New York City.
Vanessa Grigoriadis New York Mar 2001 20min Permalink
Newton Murray got his first job in 1926. He’s seldom missed a day of work since.
Lane DeGregory Tampa Bay Times Jul 2013 10min Permalink
“The government calls it “Operation Open Market,” a four-year investigation resulting, so far, in four federal grand jury indictments against 55 defendants in 10 countries, facing a cumulative millennium of prison time. What many of those alleged scammers, carders, thieves, and racketeers have in common is one simple mistake: They bought their high-quality fake IDs from a sophisticated driver’s license counterfeiting factory secretly established, owned, and operated by the United States Secret Service.”
Kevin Poulson Wired Jul 2013 15min Permalink