For the last Nazi hunter, the inevitable comes into focus
Efraim Zuroff does not want to retire.
Efraim Zuroff does not want to retire.
Joshua Davidovich The Times of Israel Nov 2012 15min Permalink
Behind the scenes of the lovely, strange world of competitive eating.
Jon Ronson GQ Oct 2012 20min Permalink
David Samuels is a contributing editor at Harper's and contributor to The New Yorker and The Atlantic.
"You start by doing the thing you want to do, at whatever level you can. There's this idea that you work your way up by writing captions, and then capsule film reviews or whatever, and I don't think it works that way. I think you learn to master a form, and you start by doing the thing you want to do. At first you're not going to do it as well as you wish you could, and then you learn. At the same time, I think, there's so much dreck, and there's so many people who don't care about doing the thing well, that when that kid walks in your door and they want to do the thing, you say 'Sure,' because it doesn't cost you anything, you look at it, and there's actually some energy on the page, like, yeah, it's bad, but it's bad in a different way. It's bad in the way of someone who might eventually be good."
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Animal nature, human racism, and the future of zoos.
David Samuels Harper's Jun 2012 45min Permalink
The challenges of parenting genius.
Andrew Solomon New York Times Magazine Oct 2012 20min Permalink
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Blockbusters in the age of “corporate irony.”
David Denby The New Republic Sep 2012 35min Permalink
“There’s a lot of disorder that comes along with wanting to know everything and wanting to try everything and wanting to experience everything, but there’s a lot of knowledge that comes out of it too.”
Elizabeth Gilbert, Rachel Khong The Rumpus Oct 2012 40min Permalink
Adventures in bartending.
Elizabeth Gilbert GQ Mar 1997 20min Permalink
Becoming a priest in Boston amidst a sex abuse scandal and church closings.
Patrick Doyle Boston Magazine Oct 2012 20min Permalink
The future of beer behemoth AB InBev.
Devin Leonard Businessweek Oct 2012 15min Permalink
On the potential existence of personalized bioweapons, which could attack a single individual without leaving a trace, and how they might be stopped.
Andrew Hessel, Marc Goodman, Steven Kotler The Atlantic Oct 2012 35min Permalink
The allure of conclusion-shaping and a wunderkind’s fall.
Boris Kachka New York Oct 2012 20min Permalink
A high school baseball team responds to a loss.
Chris Ballard Sports Illustrated Oct 2012 30min Permalink
The future of homo sapiens.
Charles C. Mann Orion Oct 2012 35min Permalink
Great dreams, terrible dreams, no dreams at all—a collection of stories about slumber, at Slate.
The surprising anti-monopolist origins of the world’s most popular board game.
Christopher Ketcham Harper's Oct 2012 25min Permalink
Reflections on Mr. Angell, Mr. Kahn and Dad.
Alex Belth SB Nation Oct 2012 20min Permalink
Working within Andalusia’s impoverished farming communities, a ragtag pair of longtime union leaders have been leading raids on local supermarkets.
Jeffrey Tayler Businessweek Oct 2012 10min Permalink
On the moral behavior of animals.
Mark Rowlands Aeon Oct 2012 15min Permalink
The U.S. military’s leadership problem.
Thomas E. Ricks The Atlantic Nov 2012 25min Permalink
How modernity – and an eruption of violence – changed “the most remote inhabited island on the Atlantic seaboard.”
Geoffrey Douglas Yankee Sep 2011 Permalink
A non-erotic journey.
John Jeremiah Sullivan New York Times Magazine Oct 2012 10min Permalink
Barry Zito, profiled.
Chris Jones Esquire Jun 2002 10min Permalink
Bruce Cawsey Waite has no home, no office, and wears a dead man’s suit.
Lisa Taddeo The New York Observer Oct 2012 Permalink