A Guitar's Life
An instrument’s impact on a handful of Texans.
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
A law professor’s interpretation of the 2004 hit.
Caleb Mason Saint Louis School of Law Jan 2010 40min Permalink
A look inside Google’s Ground Truth.
Alexis Madrigal The Atlantic Sep 2012 Permalink
The impossible task of touring a tractor factory in post-Soviet Belarus.
Dimiter Kenarov The Virginia Quarterly Review Sep 2011 25min Permalink
New York’s Russian community in Brooklyn.
Peter Pomerantsev London Review of Books Sep 2012 15min Permalink
Did a handsome young Green Beret doctor kill his pregnant wife and two daughters? Or, as he claims, did a group of candle-carrying hippies carry out a vicious home invasion while chanting “Acid is groovy, kill the pigs”? A mystery that spanned three decades.
Robert Sam Anson Vanity Fair Jul 1998 40min Permalink
On the road with the makeup-clad band.
Charles M. Young Rolling Stone Apr 1977 20min Permalink
A profile of the oft-shirtless tight end Rob Gronkowski.
Chris Ballard Sports Illustrated Sep 2012 25min Permalink
Putting killer animals on trial.
Drew Nelles Maisonneuve Sep 2012 15min Permalink
An essay on Jay-Z.
Zadie Smith T Magazine Sep 2012 15min Permalink
Writing a “stunt memoir” in the waterpark capital of the world.
Jason Albert The Morning News Aug 2012 20min Permalink
The Buckeye State’s fortunes and the fight for credit.
Matt Bai New York Times Magazine Sep 2012 30min Permalink
The governor of Arkansas, profiled.
“It was creepy to wake up violently in the middle of the night. It was creepier when no one could tell me why it was happening.”
Doree Shafrir Buzzfeed Sep 2012 30min Permalink
Paul Ford is a writer and programmer.
"You don't really read a newspaper to preserve journalism, or save great journalism, or to keep the newspaper going. You read it because it gives you a sense of power or control over the environment that you're in, and actually sort of helps you define what your personal territory is, and what the things are that matter for you. As long as products serve that need—as long as books allow you to explore spaces that it's otherwise really hard for you to explore and so on—I think people will continue to read them."
Sep 2012 Permalink
An essay about phone dials and a response to the end of blogging.
Paul Ford Ftrain.com Aug 2012 Permalink
How Wall Street got addicted to trading at the speed of light.
Jerry Adler Wired Sep 2012 30min Permalink
On the craft of reporting poverty.
Emily Brennan, Katherine Boo Guernica Sep 2012 10min Permalink
A profile of the cyclist by his former mechanic and assistant.
Mike Anderson Outside Aug 2012 25min Permalink
An essay on African-American fatherhood.
Ta-Nehisi Coates Washington Monthly Mar 2002 15min Permalink
A profile of Griselda Blanco, aka the “Black Widow,” who pioneered the cocaine trade in New York and Miami.
Ethan Brown Maxim Jul 2008 15min Permalink
In 1974, a pair of four-year-old cousins wandered into the jungle near India’s border with Myanmar. The boy was found five days later, temporarily incapable of speech. The girl was gone. For decades, stories echoed through villages of a “wild-looking woman,” sometimes striding beside a tiger. Thirty-eight years later, she returned.
Lhendup G Bhutia Open Aug 2012 10min Permalink