Manufacturing Taste
The history of Kraft Dinner, Canada’s “de facto national dish.”
The history of Kraft Dinner, Canada’s “de facto national dish.”
Sasha Chapman The Walrus Sep 2012 25min Permalink
How the biggest club in Vegas does business.
Devin Friedman GQ Aug 2012 30min Permalink
How “grand metaphors” drive politics.
Matt Bai New York Times Magazine Jul 2005 Permalink
A profile of the Aurora shooter.
Dan Frosch, Erica Goode, Jack Healy, Serge F. Kovaleski New York Times Aug 2012 10min Permalink
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A profile of Scooter Braun.
Lizzie Widdicombe New Yorker Aug 2012 30min Permalink
The evolution and economics of English football.
David Conn London Review of Books Aug 2012 15min Permalink
On working in an artists’ colony.
Alexander Chee The Morning News Aug 2012 15min Permalink
A year at a “low-performing” high school in San Francisco.
Kristina Rizga Mother Jones Aug 2012 30min Permalink
On New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik.
James Wolcott The New Republic Feb 2007 15min Permalink
An oral history of Burning Man.
Brad Wieners Outside Aug 2012 25min Permalink
How a Rhode Island lawyer named Joseph Caramadre made millions by exploiting the life insurance industry’s fine print.
Jake Bernstein ProPublica Aug 2012 20min Permalink
Encountering a pack of wild dogs in Manhattan.
Rebecca Skloot New York May 2005 10min Permalink
Sex and status disclosure in the age of Grindr and undetectable HIV-levels.
Rich Juzwiak Gawker Aug 2012 15min Permalink
Bangka Island, a frequently lethal link in a global electronics supply chain.
Cam Simpson Businessweek Aug 2012 20min Permalink
The false promise and double standard of integration in the Obama era.
Ta-Nehisi Coates The Atlantic Sep 2012 40min Permalink
The aftermath of a stranger’s death and the puzzle of psychosis.
Christopher Frizzelle The Stranger Aug 2012 25min Permalink
David Grann is a staff writer at The New Yorker.
"You don't always know all the answers. I think that's what kinda makes life interesting. The thing that makes these stories real, while they are in some ways unfathomable, [is that] there's an uneasiness of certitude. Because there are things that are not always known, there are elements of doubt, and that can be very haunting ... In some of the stories, you get as close as you can to all you know—and then there are parts that elude you."
Aug 2012 Permalink
On a former Louisiana preacher who converted to Atheism.
Robert F. Worth New York Times Magazine Aug 2012 10min Permalink
The rock critic’s lasting impact.
Maria Bustillos New Yorker Aug 2012 10min Permalink
A previously unpublished, 20,000-word interview with Eno.
Lester Bangs noahsheldon.com Jan 1979 1h20min Permalink
A meditation on the “out-and-out confrontational confidence of the totally ignorant.”
Rebecca Solnit TomDispatch Apr 2008 10min Permalink
Ervil LeBaron, the Mormon Manson, terrorized Mexico’s Mormon compounds, ordering the killing of enemies and relatives alike. Even after he was captured, followers continued treat the “Hit List” he left behind as the word of God.
“I am talking here about a time when I began to doubt the premises of all the stories I had ever told myself, a common condition but one I found troubling.”
Joan Didion The White Album Jan 1979 40min Permalink
The secretive financial behemoth that is the American Catholic Church.
The Economist Aug 2012 15min Permalink
The day Hurricane Irene nearly drowned Prattsville, New York.