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Why people keep dying on Mount Everest.
Why people keep dying on Mount Everest.
Grayson Schaffer Outside Sep 2012 25min Permalink
Diagnosed with a rare blood disease, the author reflects on illness and addiction.
Will Self The Guardian Oct 2011 20min Permalink
Catching up with the controversial radio host, who recently returned to the air after years away.
Michael Kruse Grantland Sep 2012 15min Permalink
The rise of the “wildly lucrative” herbal incense business, and the downfall of one company.
Chris Sweeney New Times Broward-Palm Beach Sep 2012 10min Permalink
A profile of Mindy Kaling.
The story of Edward Deeds, a state mental hospital patient and artistic genius.
Aimee Levitt The Riverfront Times Sep 2012 25min Permalink
Is a Marine responsible for a series of violent attacks against women?
Harry Jaffe Washingtonian Sep 2012 30min Permalink
The elusive director’s early years.
John H. Richardson Esquire Sep 2008 25min Permalink
An American enrolls in a Beijing ping-pong school. A series of humiliations ensue.
Christopher Beam GQ Sep 2012 15min Permalink
It started as a bluebird New Year’s Day in Mount Rainier National Park. But when a gunman murdered a ranger and then fled back into the park’s frozen backcountry, every climber, skier, and camper became a suspect—and a potential victim.
Bruce Barcott Outside Sep 2012 Permalink
The failed deposal of a university president.
Andrew Rice New York Times Magazine Sep 2012 20min Permalink
The evolution of cheating in chess.
Dave McKenna Grantland Sep 2012 15min Permalink
Mac McClelland is a human rights reporter for Mother Jones.
"There's a lot of strength and resiliance even in the worst stories ever. I mean, you do get bogged down by how much evil so many people are willing to perpetrate in the world. But I guess the little beam of sunshine that you're looking for, that hits me in the face in the morning, is just the character and intergrity of the people who are involved. "
Sep 2012 Permalink
On surf legend Eddie Aikau and the complicated history of Hawaii.
Nicole Pasulka The Believer Sep 2012 15min Permalink
On working in a war zone to pay the bills.
Anonymous The Billfold Sep 2012 15min Permalink
Unprecedented access to six months in the life of the President of the United States.
Michael Lewis Vanity Fair Oct 2012 55min Permalink
The old and the new in New York.
Colson Whitehead New York Times Magazine Nov 2011 10min Permalink
“Has anybody in Westchester County ever called the New York Times his or her ‘friend’? I realize that the rest of America, in its post-Katrina fatigue, is pretty tired of hearing New Orleanians, the city’s acolytes and defenders, always carrying on about how it’s the most unique city in America, but, the fact is, it is. Get over it.
And so, too, is its newspaper.”
Chris Rose Oxford American Sep 2012 15min Permalink
A 15-year-old hacker and his tricks.
Scott Raab’s ongoing reports on the reconstruction at the World Trade Center site.
Scott Raab Esquire 3h50min Permalink
Retro, apocalypticism, and our “culture of disaster.”
Christian Thorne October Apr 2003 35min Permalink
An instrument’s impact on a handful of Texans.
Hank Stuever Austin American-Statesman Nov 1997 35min Permalink
How the fatwa changed his life.
Salman Rushdie New Yorker Sep 2012 50min Permalink
On New York City’s housing projects.
Mark Jacobson New York Sep 2012 25min Permalink
How meteorologists are improving their predictive powers.
Nate Silver New York Times Magazine Sep 2012 15min Permalink