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On Japanese writer Gengoroh Tagame, who creates gay manga work “in the artistic tradition of Pasolini, de Sade, Yukio Mishima and Lolita.”
Chris Randle Hazlitt Jun 2013 10min Permalink
What happens when a 26-year-old Kentucky resident decides to investigate a rape case from his computer.
Adrian Chen Gawker Jun 2013 30min Permalink
The battle over safety at chemical plants amidst the death of a worker.
Dianna Wray Houston Press Jun 2013 20min Permalink
The thin, resentful line between comic and audience.
Patton Oswalt pattonoswalt.com Jun 2013 Permalink
A three-part investigation into crooked fundraising.
Kris Hundley, Kendall Taggart The Tampa Bay Times Jun 2013 45min Permalink
How an informant helped authorities nab a notorious anti-abortion activist.
Robert Kolker New York Nov 2008 25min Permalink
A year with a high school support group for boys who have lost a parent.
John Faherty Cincinnati Enquirer Jun 2013 35min Permalink
The intertwined lives of an Oregon rancher and a Indiana fraudster.
Michael Rubino Indianapolis Monthly Jun 2013 30min Permalink
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How General Keith Alexander, director of the NSA, became the most powerful intelligence officer in U.S. history.
James Bamford Wired Jun 2013 20min Permalink
On an artist who’s spent nearly 50 years bending the rules of space and light, and his life’s work, an extinct volcano in Arizona where he has been developing a network of tunnels and underground rooms since 1974.
Wil S. Hylton New York Times Magazine Jun 2013 25min Permalink
Inside an animal-lover civil war.
Jessica Pressler New York Jun 2013 20min Permalink
Chris Heath, winner of the 2013 National Magazine Award for Reporting, is a staff writer at GQ.
"I present myself as someone who is going to be rigorous and honest. And if you can engage in the way I'm asking you to engage, then I hope that you will recognize yourself in a more truthful way in this story than you usually do. And maybe even, with a bit of luck, more than you ever have before. That's what I bring. That's my offer."
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The bizarre battle over the Call of Duty video game franchise.
Max Chafkin Vanity Fair Jun 2013 20min Permalink
"I think what Kanye West is going to mean is something similar to what Steve Jobs means. I am undoubtedly, you know, Steve of Internet, downtown, fashion, culture. Period. By a long jump. I honestly feel that because Steve has passed, you know, it’s like when Biggie passed and Jay-Z was allowed to become Jay-Z."
Jon Caramanica New York Times Jun 2013 20min Permalink
Tracking the circuitous fall of a Chinese political star.
Lauren Hilgers Harper's Mar 2013 30min Permalink
On the hundreds of corpses that go unindentified every year along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Brendan Borrell The American Prospect Jun 2013 25min Permalink
“A curious thing about the United States is that anticommunism has always been far louder and more potent than communism.”
Adam Hochschild New York Review of Books May 2013 15min Permalink
A profile of a modern porn star.
Leigh Cowart NSFWCORP Jun 2013 50min Permalink
What the bountiful sex lives of bonobos—they enjoy deep kissing, oral sex, dry humping, and polyamory—can teach us about humanity.
Jack Hitt Lapham's Quarterly Jun 2013 15min Permalink
A profile of Stevie Nicks.
The emerging political consciousness of Silicon Valley.
George Packer New Yorker May 2013 40min Permalink
A writer’s chance meeting with his idol.
Davis Miller Louisville Courier-Journal Jan 1989 30min Permalink
On cushy jobs in web development, deeply un-cushy opportunities in writing, and our assumptions about the value of labor.
James Somers Aeon Jun 2013 15min Permalink