How to Spend 47 Hours on a Train and Not Go Crazy
A journey on the Sunset Limited, which ferries people from Louisiana to California.
A journey on the Sunset Limited, which ferries people from Louisiana to California.
Nathaniel Rich New York Times Magazine Feb 2013 20min Permalink
A profile of the late-night host.
Jonah Weiner Rolling Stone Mar 2013 20min Permalink
The Branch Davidians today, 20 years after the deadly standoff.
Alex Hannaford The Sunday Times Feb 2013 Permalink
A 16-year-old runner, her coach and the lasting memory of an improbable race.
Steve Friedman Runner's World Dec 2012 30min Permalink
How the borough bounced back.
Pete Hamill New York Jul 1969 35min Permalink
A Liberian road trip with the creator of MTV, Ralph Reed and a reformed cannibal named General Butt Naked.
Joe Hagan Men's Journal Feb 2013 25min Permalink
“It seemed like everyone gets raped and assaulted and no one does anything about it; it’s like a big rape cult.”
Sabrina Rubin Erdely Rolling Stone Feb 2013 30min Permalink
Naffe, a young Republican, entered the belly of the political beast – and was nearly eaten.
Chris Faraone Boston Phoenix Feb 2013 Permalink
From Southie to Santa Monica, a gangster romance on the run.
Kevin Cullen, Shelley Murphy The Boston Globe Feb 2013 20min Permalink
On the Connecticut priest who dealt methamphetamine from his church and ran a sex ring from his apartment.
N.R. Kleinfield New York Times Feb 2013 10min Permalink
Keith Gessen is the founding editor of n+1 and a contributor to The New Yorker.
"The founding editors are slowing down. We're not mad at anyone anymore. We think everything is great. ... But amazingly at n+1, we've had this younger generation of angry young women kind of rise up. Something has created space for young editors to come in and be really angry ... But that's holy, that's the thing that makes great writing: being angry."
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The economics of being a young writer.
Keith Gessen n+1 Mar 2006 10min Permalink
The diarist and photographer Peter Beard, known both for his series documenting a mass elephant starvation and for discovering the supermodel Iman on a Nairobi street, reflects on his life of “drugs, debt, and beautiful women” while recovering from being trampled by an elephant.
Leslie Bennetts Vanity Fair Nov 1996 30min Permalink
A lesson in ethics.
Manny Randhawa, Tommy Craggs National Sports Journalism Center Feb 2013 15min Permalink
Confessions of a Sweet Valley High ghostwriter.
Amy Boesky The Kenyon Review Feb 2013 20min Permalink
The author examines his closest relationships.
Edward Hoagland The American Scholar Feb 2013 25min Permalink
On historian Ian Morris and his predictions for humanity’s future.
Marc Parry The Chronicle of Higher Education Feb 2013 15min Permalink
From 1975-1986, Anthony Edward Dokoupil distributed more than 50 tons of weed in the United States. The operation ruined his family and destroyed his life. Three decades later, his son came looking for answers.
Tony Dokoupil Newsweek Jul 2009 15min Permalink
“This is the story of Billy Conn, who won the girl he loved but lost the best fight ever.”
Frank Deford Sports Illustrated Jun 1985 Permalink
On Cecilia Chang, the St. John’s fundraiser who committed suicide after being convicted of fraud, and the university administrators who benefited from her crime.
Steve Fishman New York Feb 2013 20min Permalink
A profile of Max Wade, a Marin County teenager on trial for stealing Guy Fieri’s Lamborghini and using it in the first drive-by in the history of Mill Valley, California.
Chris Roberts San Francisco Magazine Feb 2013 25min Permalink
Before he died, Sun Myung Moon, cult father to massive Unification Church (known better as the Moonies), sent 14 Japanese “national messiahs” deep into the Paraguayan jungle to build an utopian “ideal city.” Thirteen years later, the author catches a trading boat down river in search of their hidden town.
Monte Reel Outside Feb 2013 20min Permalink
Shanghai, in 1989 and 2013. Excerpted from A History of Future Cities.
Daniel Brook Places Journal Feb 2013 35min Permalink
A profile of 101-year-old marathoner Fauja Singh.
Jordan Conn ESPN Feb 2013 15min Permalink
Bob Voulgaris and his math prodigy sidekick attempt to create the perfect betting algorithm.
Scott Eden ESPN Feb 2013 20min Permalink