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An impossible hike in Western China.
An impossible hike in Western China.
Robert Macfarlane Places Journal Oct 2012 Permalink
“For every other kid in the room, the science experiment probably amounts to just another classroom activity, but for the Nashes the project is a reminder of Molly’s own fight for life and the controversial cutting-edge medicine that saved her.”
Amanda M. Faison 5280 Aug 2005 Permalink
On Queens’ stubbornly unchanging Roosevelt Avenue, where immigrants pay $2 a song to grind against hired dancers and shuttered houses of prostitution have given way to rolling brothel-vans.
Sarah Maslin Mir New York Times Oct 2012 10min Permalink
A profile of Montana Senator Jon Tester.
Chris Jones Esquire Oct 2012 20min Permalink
How a high-speed rail disaster exposed China’s corruption.
Evan Osnos New Yorker Oct 2012 30min Permalink
I can’t ask anything. Once in a while if I’m forced into it I will conduct an interview, but it’s usually pro forma, just to establish my credentials as somebody who’s allowed to hang around for a while. It doesn’t matter to me what people say to me in the interview because I don’t trust it.
Hilton Als, Joan Didion The Paris Review Apr 2006 30min Permalink
The tragi-comic career of a nobody comedian from the 1940s who ditched his wife, child, and eventually his own name.
Kliph Nesteroff WFMU Oct 2012 20min Permalink
Captain Iván Castro, who lost his vision in Iraq, runs the Boston Marathon.
Brandon Sneed ESPN Oct 2012 20min Permalink
How Barack Obama decided to green-light the operation that killed Osama bin Laden.
Mark Bowden Vanity Fair Oct 2012 40min Permalink
An argument for outing a notorious message board member: “Under Reddit logic, outing Violentacrez is worse than anonymously posting creepshots of innocent women, because doing so would undermine Reddit’s role as a safe place for people to anonymously post creepshots of innocent women. I am OK with that.”
Adrian Chen Gawker Oct 2012 20min Permalink
Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian launches an ambitious campaign.
John Herrman Buzzfeed Oct 2012 15min Permalink
Joshuah Bearman discusses "The Great Escape," his article about a CIA operation in Iran that became the basis for the new film Argo.
"We were sitting there and we were like, 'This would be perfect for George Clooney.' And it very quickly in fact turned out that George Clooney wanted it. So not long after David and I had been having our daydream, we had this project that Clooney had taken quickly into the empyrean heights of Hollywood."
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A strange, ongoing property battle among the richest of Texans.
Terrence McCoy Houston Press Oct 2012 20min Permalink
How a couple made millions on uncanny forgeries.
Joshua Hammer Vanity Fair Oct 2012 35min Permalink
The last men who ride the rails, “where silence and lawlessness still reign.”
Aaron Lake Smith Vice Oct 2012 30min Permalink
Meet Kareem Ahmed, the President’s reclusive bankroller.
Eric Lach Talking Points Memo Oct 2012 20min Permalink
Chris Jones (Live in Romania)
Evan Ratliff interviews Chris Jones before a live audience in Bucharest, hosted by the Romanian magazine Decât o Revistă.
"It just feels good to fucking win ... If you want to say 'Let's get rid of [journalism awards],' no problem. But if they exist, I want to win them. Just because I won two—I know Gary Smith has won four. I want five. Unless Gary Smith wins five, and then I want six. That's just how I work. And maybe that's a terrible, competitive, creepy thing. But journalism is competitive."
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Oct 2012 Permalink
A Javanese shrine where Muslim pilgrims seeking good fortune must peform a ritual: find a stranger, have sex with them.
Aubrey Belford The Global Mail Oct 2012 15min Permalink
Unraveling the layers of upstate New York’s most reclusive community.
Aaron Lake Smith Vice Jan 2012 25min Permalink
In Argentina, where the fútbol underworld controls everything from t-shirt vending to murder, and “rowdy gangs” have turned the stadium into a battleground.
Patrick Symmes Outside Oct 2012 25min Permalink
How one woman is monitoring the jihadi network from a home office in Montana.
A spy takes on his own agency.
David Wise Smithsonian Oct 2012 Permalink
Why the flood of money in this election is just the beginning.
James Bennet The Atlantic Oct 2012 35min Permalink
On Bruce Springsteen’s song, and growing up in a factory town.
Joe Posnanski Joe Blog Nov 2010 Permalink
The complete (to date) New York Times series on the globalization of high tech industries.
New York Times Jan 2012 1h55min Permalink