Interview: Renata Adler
“I never attacked anyone weak. Only bullies, secure in their courts, bureacracies, fifedoms.”
“I never attacked anyone weak. Only bullies, secure in their courts, bureacracies, fifedoms.”
Alice Gregory The Believer Mar 2013 15min Permalink
“At the gym, he’s not Garrett Holeve, the guy with Down syndrome. He’s G-Money, an up-and-coming fighter with big ambitions.”
Chris Sweeney New Times Broward-Palm Beach Dec 2012 15min Permalink
Feature Writing, Reporting, Essays and Criticism, Public Interest — a full list of the nominees announced today.
The past, present, and increasingly optimistic future of Vice.
Lizzie Widdicombe New Yorker Apr 2013 30min Permalink
The King of Rwanda is 76 years old, 7 feet 2 inches tall, and lives on public assistance in a small apartment in Virginia.
Ariel Sabar Washingtonian Mar 2013 30min Permalink
On Aint It Cool News’ Harry Knowles, who built an influential empire on insider movie news while wheelchair-bound and at one point weighing over 500 pounds, then lost it all.
Hal Espen, Borys Kit The Hollywood Reporter Mar 2013 15min Permalink
On California’s three strikes laws.
Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone Mar 2013 25min Permalink
The history and meaning of taxidermy in American museums.
How a Mossad agent’s desperate bid to jumpstart his career led to the exposure of two top Hezbollah plants.
Jason Koutsoukis The Sydney Morning Herald Mar 2013 15min Permalink
The author visits Franklin County, Mississippi, where, according to census data, there are zero same-sex couples.
John D. Sutter CNN Mar 2013 15min Permalink
How a 100-mile footrace saved a beleaguered town.
Christopher McDougall 5280 Jun 2005 25min Permalink
In 1913, Joe Knowles became a media sensation after fleeing into the Maine woods wearing nothing but a jockstrap. Two months and one bear-clubbing incident later, the “Nature Man” returned to civilization as a hero. But was it all hoax?
Bill Donahue Boston Magazine Apr 2013 20min Permalink
The case for gay marriage.
Jonathan Rauch The New Republic May 1996 15min Permalink
On former nursing student One L. Goh, who killed six people at Oikos University in Oakland, California, and what it means to the Korean immigrant community.
Jay Caspian Kang New York Times Magazine Mar 2013 20min Permalink
Meet Colorado’s suburban, Ramada-dwelling homeless.
Monica Potts The American Prospect Mar 2013 30min Permalink
A former Facebook executive critiques Sheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In” movement.
Kate Losse Dissent Mar 2013 15min Permalink
How a disgraced Civil War general became one of the best-selling novelists in American history.
John Swansburg Slate Mar 2013 45min Permalink
Molly Young is a freelance writer for GQ and New York.
"Writing a celebrity profile puts you in a position that no human being wants to be in: you are speaking with somebody, you know that they're lying to you, and you know that they know that they're lying to you. That's just the most humiliating position—it violates any human instinct for maintaining dignity."
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On the Adderall days of college.
Molly Young n+1 Jan 2008 Permalink
A profile of organizational psychologist Adam Grant, who argues that the key to success comes from helping others.
On the new science of collective behavior.
How the Brooklynization of culture killed regional music scenes.
Justin Moyer Washington City Paper Sep 2012 10min Permalink
On Ilya Zhitomirskiy, an idealistic young developer who committed suicide 18 months after founding Diaspora, his well-publicized, open-source alternative to Facebook.
Matthew Shaer Fortune Mar 2013 20min Permalink
How the author of Friday Night Lights spent more than half a million dollars over three years on “eighty-one leather jackets, seventy-five pairs of boots, forty-one pairs of leather pants, thirty-two pairs of haute couture jeans, ten evening jackets, and 115 pairs of leather gloves.”
Buzz Bissinger GQ Mar 2013 25min Permalink
Inside the most sensational murder in the history of study abroad.
Nathaniel Rich Rolling Stone Jun 2011 30min Permalink