Diary of a Murder
On the last day of their junior year at Harvard, one roommate kills the other, then hangs herself. The press descends. A year later, a reporter searches for the real story.
On the last day of their junior year at Harvard, one roommate kills the other, then hangs herself. The press descends. A year later, a reporter searches for the real story.
Melanie Thernstrom New Yorker Jun 1996 35min Permalink
The writer and his girlfriend move to the Dominican Republic, joining the rapidly expanding community of expats who claim to have found paradise. They promptly get robbed at gunpoint. To cope, he investigates the country.
Porter Fox Nowhere Magazine Oct 2010 40min Permalink
But the web is not just some kind of magic all-absorbing meta-medium. It's its own thing. And like other media it has a question that it answers better than any other. That question is: Why wasn't I consulted?
Paul Ford Ftrain.com Jan 2011 10min Permalink
Last year, an Mossad hit squad traveled to Dubai to assassinate a Hamas leader. They completed their mission, but were later humiliated when a twenty-seven minute video of their movements was posted online. How their cover got blown.
Ronen Bergman GQ Jan 2011 25min Permalink
A caller poses as a policeman and convinces McDonald’s managers to strip-search a female employee. It’s not the first time.
Andrew Wolfson The Courier-Journal Oct 2005 25min Permalink
The backstory on Julian Assange’s relationship with the Guardian and the New York Times.
Sarah Ellison Vanity Fair Feb 2011 30min Permalink
How Internet porn has altered the ways we think about, and engage in, sex.
Natasha Vargas-Cooper The Atlantic Jan 2011 15min Permalink
The new purgatory; what becomes of digital identities after death.
Rob Walker New York Times Magazine Jan 2011 Permalink
On how 21st century culture shifts killed the nerd and what lies ahead.
Patton Oswalt Wired Dec 2010 15min Permalink
On the (disputed) origins of the Huffington Post.
William D. Cohan Vanity Fair Feb 2011 Permalink
From the 1940s through the early 70s, incoming freshman at Harvard, Yale, Vassar, Wellesley, and several other top schools were photographed nude in the name of science–bogus science, as it turned out. Most of the photos were destroyed, but not all.
A profile of Mitch Landrieu, the first white mayor of New Orleans in nearly 30 years–part of a larger post-Katrina trend in the city’s politics. “The elected leadership looks almost like a photo negative of the pre-Katrina government.”
Justin Vogt Washington Monthly Jan 2011 30min Permalink
A 15-year-old dies shortly after collapsing from heatstroke during a high school football practice. Was it has coach’s fault? The state thought so, and put him on trial.
Thomas Lake Sports Illustrated Dec 2010 30min Permalink
Arnold Weiss escaped Germany as a kid in 1938, leaving his family behind. He returned seven years later, now a U.S. intelligence officer tasked with tracking down fugitive Nazis. The ultimate revenge story.
Matthew Brzezinski Washington Post Jul 2005 35min Permalink
A profile of South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley.
Hanna Rosin The Atlantic Jan 2011 15min Permalink
A reporter heads to Istanbul, where Iverson is playing minor league hoops in a 3,200-seat arena and hanging out at T.G.I. Friday’s.
Robert Huber Philadelphia Magazine Dec 2010 Permalink
The story behind the fall of Saddam’s statue in Baghdad.
Peter Maass New Yorker Jan 2011 35min Permalink
Memories of the expat revolutionary scene in 1980s Nicaragua. An excerpt from Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War.
Deb Olin Unferth The Believer Jan 2011 10min Permalink
“In 2000, Zimbabwe’s dictator began kicking white farmers off their land. One man decided to stay.”
Andrew Corsello GQ Jul 2006 40min Permalink
How Zion, Ill., a fundamentalist Christian settlement with a population of 6,250, created one of the most popular stations in the country during the early days of radio.
Cliff Doerksen Chicago Reader May 2002 Permalink
Colombian traffickers have a new smuggling method of choice: specially designed submarines capable of carrying 10 tons of cocaine and covering 2,000 miles without refueling.
Frank Owen Maxim Apr 2009 15min Permalink
On the evolution of Nigeria’s booming film industry, which produces 50 full-length features a week.
- The Economist Dec 2010 10min Permalink
The fever-dream life and death of Chinese poet Gu Cheng.
Eliot Weinberger London Review of Books Jun 2005 15min Permalink
Inside Office 39, a state-run counterfeiting operation designed to keep Kim Jong-il flush.
David Rose Vanity Fair Aug 2009 20min Permalink
The author of True Grit on growing up in Arkansas during World War II.
Charles Portis The Atlantic Dec 1969 Permalink