The End and Don King
The crumbling of an American icon.
The crumbling of an American icon.
Jay Caspian Kang Grantland Apr 2013 25min Permalink
A profile of the D.O.C., the rapper’s rapper, who ghostwrote for Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg.
Alex Pappademas Playboy Mar 2013 25min Permalink
A mother struggles to cope when a child is born with albinism.
Emily Urquhart The Walrus Apr 2013 25min Permalink
On the business of selling books.
Jay Caspian Kang is a writer and editor at Grantland.
"That's one of the things I've been learning: sometimes if you just sit there, they forget that you're there, so they forget to get rid of you. I'm very quiet and I try not to ask them a lot of questions. ... Generally I just observe. I feel like because I'm a fiction writer, the story will tell itself through the narrative of the person's movement through their daily life."</i>
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Apr 2013 Permalink
A cultural history of Bitcoin and what happened when the nascent virtual currency began to be covered by the mainstream media.
Felix Salmon Medium Apr 2013 20min Permalink
A trip to the French island of Réunion to report on a bloody battle between surfers and sharks.
Bucky McMahon GQ Apr 2013 20min Permalink
On the American teenager who was kidnapped by Islamic militants while on vacation in the Philippines.
Susan Svrluga Washington Post Apr 2013 20min Permalink
A war travelogue through Mali alongside French troops as a “place just like Afghanistan” descends into chaos.
Aris Roussinos Vice Apr 2012 35min Permalink
“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