Portrait of the Artist as a Postman
A profile of Kermit Oliver, a reclusive, critically acclaimed artist who designs scarves for Hermès and works nights at the Waco post office.
A profile of Kermit Oliver, a reclusive, critically acclaimed artist who designs scarves for Hermès and works nights at the Waco post office.
Jason Sheeler Texas Monthly Oct 2012 Permalink
The rise of drug-resistant gonorrhea.
Jerome Groopman New Yorker Sep 2012 15min Permalink
The environmental impact of server farms.
James Glanz New York Times Sep 2012 20min Permalink
Exploring remote atolls in the South Pacific.
Andrew McCarthy Travel + Leisure Oct 2012 10min Permalink
The invention of political consulting.
Jill Lepore New Yorker Sep 2012 25min Permalink
Debates surrounding physician-assisted dying in the U.S.
Marcia Angell New York Review of Books Oct 2012 15min Permalink
The story of a device that delivers electric shocks to students at a school for special needs.
Paul Kix Boston Magazine Jul 2008 Permalink
An attempt at writing about the football coach.
J. R. Moehringer Los Angeles Dec 2007 45min Permalink
What the wife of a ponzi schemer knew.
Tony D'Souza Sarasota Magazine Sep 2012 Permalink
On the country’s poorest.
Tom Zeller Jr. The Huffington Post Sep 2012 45min Permalink
“If you think cam girls—those flirty naked characters that plague porn site pop-up ads—are raking in easy money, you’re right. If you think cam girls are bleakly stripping online out of desperation, you’re also right.”
Sam Biddle Gizmodo Sep 2012 20min Permalink
An assessment of the former Secretary of the Treasury.
William D. Cohan Businessweek Sep 2012 20min Permalink
Joe Arridy had an IQ of 46. In 1939, he was executed for a crime he neither understood nor committed.
Alan Prendergast Westword Sep 2012 30min Permalink
On the 1,600-year-old text that suggests that Jesus, long believed to be celibate, was a married man.
Ariel Sabar Smithsonian Sep 2012 Permalink
Ta-Nehisi Coates is a senior editor at The Atlantic and author of The Beautiful Struggle.
"I was 24 when my son was born. People always say that kids get in the way, right? But actually it had the opposite effect on me. I feel like I could have spent my twenties doing all sorts of self-destructive things--that was my natural inclination--but having a kid suddenly makes that not OK ... The stakes of everything just went up. I think I'm the type of person where, for any reason, I only respond to pressure. That kid just so raised the pressure, for everything ... So I started writing for the Washington Monthly, and the Monthly pays shit, everybody knows that, right? They were paying ten cents a word at this point. But because they have these big-shots writing for them, nobody ever calls for the check! But I would say, 'no, I need you to send me that check. Yeah, I know it's only $150, but I actually need that check, you really need to send that check.'"
Sep 2012 Permalink
At 66, Young sobers up.
David Carr New York Times Magazine Sep 2012 20min Permalink
On a week spent immersed in right wing media.
Frank Rich New York Sep 2012 15min Permalink
Inside the cluttered Los Angeles apartment of lo-fi auteur Ariel Pink.
A medical device company experiments on humans.
Mina Kimes Fortune Sep 2012 30min Permalink
The debate over autonomous lethal drones.
Don Troop The Chronicle of Higher Education Sep 2012 15min Permalink
On Teller, his magic, and his response to a stolen trick.
Chris Jones Esquire Sep 2012 Permalink
The former editor of the New York Observer, profiled.
Nathan Heller The New Republic Sep 2012 25min Permalink
How child molesters get away with it.
Malcolm Gladwell New Yorker Sep 2012 20min Permalink
Why so many smart kids are cheating on tests.
Robert Kolker New York Sep 2012 25min Permalink
Capote, Talese, Orwell, Boo—masters of the craft, in their own words. New at Slate.