Interview: Yayoi Kusama
An interview with the Japanese artist, who has resided in a mental institution since committing herself in 1975.
An interview with the Japanese artist, who has resided in a mental institution since committing herself in 1975.
Grady Turner, Yayoi Kusama BOMB Magazine Dec 1999 20min Permalink
The story of an avalanche, as told by a survivor.
Megan Michelson Outside Nov 2012 15min Permalink
A week in the author’s life when it became impossible to control the course of events.
Jo Ann Beard New Yorker Jun 1996 30min Permalink
How conspiracy theory links the internet’s first spam (a series of randomly generated words with the subject line Markovian Parallax Denigrate) with a woman who posed as a CIA agent and was convicted of receiving funds from Saddam Hussein’s government.
Kevin Morris Daily Dot Nov 2012 15min Permalink
How a team of 40 engineers helped reelect Barack Obama.
Alexis Madrigal The Atlantic Nov 2012 30min Permalink
Memoir of a Latter-day campaign correspondent.
McKay Coppins Buzzfeed Nov 2012 15min Permalink
Army Spc. Erik Schei was shot in the head in Iraq. This is the story of his recovery.
Megan McCloskey Stars and Stripes Nov 2012 40min Permalink
Ashlyn Blocker, 13, has a “congenital insensitivity to pain.”
Justin Heckert New York Times Magazine Nov 2012 20min Permalink
The story of the 1944 German national soccer championship game.
Noah Davis SB Nation Nov 2012 20min Permalink
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A 50-year medical riddle in Papua New Guinea and the man who made solving it his life’s work.
Jo Chandler The Global Mail Nov 2012 25min Permalink
Exploring Paris’s parallel universe of tunnels, caverns and catacombs.
Will Hunt Intelligent Life Nov 2012 15min Permalink
“If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it’s probably because at some level you find “reality” a bit of a disappointment.”
Joe Queenan The Wall Street Journal Oct 2012 10min Permalink
A profile of Reinhold Messner, the greatest mountain climber of all time.
Caroline Alexander National Geographic Nov 2006 35min Permalink
The deadly hazing that destroyed a legendary college marching band.
Ben Montgomery The Tampa Bay Times Nov 2012 10min Permalink
Life in the French Foreign Legion.
William Langewiesche Vanity Fair Nov 2012 30min Permalink
A field report from Electric Daisy Carnival, a three-night bacchanal in the Las Vegas desert attended by “100,000 wasted hedonists scantily dressed in furry underwear.”
Gideon Lewis-Kraus GQ Nov 2012 20min Permalink
As immigration turns red states blue, how can Republicans transform their platform?
Ryan Lizza New Yorker Nov 2012 25min Permalink
The relationship between Buffalo and its team.
Ben Austen Grantland Nov 2012 35min Permalink
In the Swiss town of Meiringen, where an obsessed group of ‘pilgrims’ painstakingly recreate the death of Sherlock Holmes.
Edward Docx Prospect Oct 2012 15min Permalink
More than forty years later, tracking down an elementary school crush.
Gene Weingarten Washington Post Feb 2001 20min Permalink
The gamblers and teenage cons who haunted New York City’s 60s-era all night bowling alleys.
Gianmarc Manzione New York Times Nov 2012 10min Permalink
An alleged rape and one woman’s futile quest for justice in modern China.
john Garnaut, Sanghee Liu Foreign Policy Nov 2012 10min Permalink
Dunks, drugs, and disappointment: an oral history of the 1980s Houston Rockets.
Jonathan Abrams Grantland Nov 2012 55min Permalink
How a loathsome band makes gobs of money.
Ben Paynter Businessweek Nov 2012 10min Permalink