Meet The Kid In The Jackie Robinson Photo (Which Was Staged)
Why almost everything we think we know about the iconic photo from Robinson’s first game is wrong.
Why almost everything we think we know about the iconic photo from Robinson’s first game is wrong.
Keith Olbermann MLB.com Apr 2013 10min Permalink
On the barely regulated business of looking after kids.
Jonathan Cohn The New Republic Apr 2013 20min Permalink
A new era in the search for life on Mars.
Burkhard Bilger New Yorker Apr 2013 45min Permalink
An overachiever on what he did and didn’t learn at Princeton.
Walter Kirn The Atlantic Jan 2005 35min Permalink
A drunken evening with the Primer and Upstream Color director.
Zach Baron Grantland Apr 2013 15min Permalink
On balancing creative ambition and financial security.
Genevieve Smith Elle Apr 2013 Permalink
On an Indonesian town that serves both as stopping point for those seeking to reach Australia by boat and a hotspot for short term ‘contract marriage,’ which allows Saudi tourists a loophole to engage in Islamic-sanctioned prostitution.
Aubrey Belford The Global Mail Apr 2013 15min Permalink
A profile of the Van Halen frontman.
Steve Kandell Buzzfeed Apr 2013 25min Permalink
Life in Green Bank, West Virginia, a town without cell signals and a haven people with electromagnetic hypersensitivity (a disease that may or may not exist).
Joseph Stromberg Slate Apr 2013 15min Permalink
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A serial killer attempts to donate an organ.
Charles Graeber New York Oct 2007 25min Permalink
A profile of Kehinde Wiley, a painter who inserts the “brown faces” that have historically been relegated to the background in Western art.
Wyatt Mason GQ Apr 2013 25min Permalink
Charles Pierce’s classic GQ profile of Tiger Woods, annotated.
Charles Pierce, Michael MacCambridge Grantland Apr 2013 30min Permalink
Solving the mystery of the corpse in the Eleganté Hotel.
Mark Bowden Vanity Fair May 2013 30min Permalink
An interview with a blotto Lee Marvin.
Roger Ebert Esquire Oct 1970 15min Permalink
An investigation into a scholarly hoax.
On the death of a brother.
Susan Straight The Believer Apr 2013 10min Permalink
Patrick Symmes is a foreign correspondent and contributor to Outside and Harper's.
"They rolled us up like a cheap carpet. We were locked in a room for 14 hours. And for the first six hours that was okay. Everything was nice; there was coffee. But then the nightshift came on. You could hear gunshots in the street, and these guys were scared. And they were thugs. And they were thugs with a mission: to get rid of every foreigner who might witness what was happening."</i>
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A portrait of a new nation.
Patrick Symmes Outside Apr 2013 25min Permalink
The story of Christopher Knight, who lived in the Maine woods for 27 years with virtually no human contact.
Craig Crosby Kennebec Journal Apr 2013 10min Permalink
The private life of a disgraced former congressman.
Jonathan Van Meter New York Times Magazine Apr 2013 25min Permalink
The rise and fall of Synanon, an addiction-recovery cult in California, and its charismatic leader, a one-time homeless wino named Chuck Dederich who taught his followers to berate each other for therapy.
George Pendle Cabinet Apr 2013 15min Permalink
On Felix Baumgartner and his 24-mile jump.
William Langewiesche Vanity Fair May 2013 30min Permalink
“Remember why we’re here: to empower the child. If you can’t handle it, keep your shades on.”
Karina Bland The Arizona Republic Jul 2012 30min Permalink
One year before his death, Mickey Mantle describes a life of drinking.
Jill Lieber, Mickey Mantle Sports Illustrated Apr 1994 20min Permalink