The Finish Line
The heroes of the Boston Marathon bombing.
The heroes of the Boston Marathon bombing.
Sean Flynn GQ Jun 2013 25min Permalink
She was Becky Sue Turner, then Lori Erica Ruff. Now she’s Jane Doe.
Maureen O'Hagan Seattle Times Jun 2013 15min Permalink
The Lyme-disease infection rate is growing. So is the battle over how to treat it.
Michael Specter New Yorker Jul 2013 20min Permalink
What the writer’s newly revealed letters mean for her long-debated legacy.
Hermione Lee New York Review of Books Jun 2013 15min Permalink
The investigation that brought down K2 Productions.
Katie J.M. Baker Jezebel Mar 2013 15min Permalink
The story of a St. Louis handball court.
Jessica Lussenhop Riverfront Times Jun 2013 Permalink
Seven years after being fired from The Replacements, their founding guitarist is an thirty-three-year-old unemployed line cook living amongst memories in Minneapolis. He would be dead within two years.
Charles Aaron Spin Jun 1993 15min Permalink
How the city will drown.
Jeff Goddell Rolling Stone Jun 2013 30min Permalink
A family turns to murder to save one of their own.
Lauren Smiley San Francisco Jul 2013 25min Permalink
Confessions of a white-collar dope fiend.
Anonymous Washington City Paper Jan 1995 1h15min Permalink
Most of what you know about women’s fertility rates is wrong.
Jean Twenge The Atlantic Jun 2013 15min Permalink
The economics of freelance journalism in 2013.
Noah Davis The Awl Jun 2013 10min Permalink
“In the past, when he has spoken, he has sometimes replied to questions by protesting that he is boring. Maybe he believes that this is the case, or just believes there is no point in allowing himself to seem interesting in the way interviewers usually want people to be. Still, he has told himself that tonight he will be truthful. He’s feeling calmer these days. He has not had one of these conversations for a while, and he intends it to be a long time before he has another.”
Chris Heath GQ Dec 2004 15min Permalink
Inside the growth of intelligence contracting.
Drake Bennett, Michael Riley Businessweek Jun 2013 15min Permalink
Why hundreds of Buddhist monks moved from Taiwan to Prince Edward Island, buying up thousands of acres of land in the process.
Mark Mann Maisonneuve Jun 2013 20min Permalink
On the murder of Jam Master Jay.
Frank Owen Playboy Dec 2003 Permalink
Nicholas Schmidle is a staff writer at The New Yorker.
"I was in a taxi, leaving Karachi to go attend this festival, and we started getting these very disturbing phone calls from newspaper reporters that didn't exist, all of them asking me to meet them at various places in Karachi. I had read enough about the Daniel Pearl case to know what happened in the days leading up, and this was very similar. ... We kept driving towards the festival, and shortly after that, friends started calling. They were watching local television, and it was being reported that 'Nicholas Shamble,' editor of Smithsonian Magazine, had been kidnapped. And I was like, 'All right, I get the hint.'"
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On living in Syria as an Alawite loyalist.
Robert F. Worth New York Times Magazine Jun 2013 20min Permalink
A eulogy for the journalist.
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“When I look at Mr. McCreery’s boat… I know that life is wild, dangerous, beautiful.”
Barry Lopez Outside May 1998 20min Permalink
Among the Sasquatch-searchers.
Robert Sullivan Open Spaces May 1998 25min Permalink
High school debate and the demise of public speech.
Ben Lerner Harper's Oct 2012 20min Permalink
Inside the world of high-priced online reputation management.
Graeme Wood New York Jun 2013 15min Permalink
“As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy can be stated in an axiom: the defense of privacy follows, and never precedes, the emergence of new technologies for the exposure of secrets. In other words, the case for privacy always comes too late.”
Jill Lepore New Yorker Jun 2013 15min Permalink