‘Why Has He Fallen Short?’
Frank Rich on The Promise, Jonathan Alter’s book about the first year of the Obama administration.
Frank Rich on The Promise, Jonathan Alter’s book about the first year of the Obama administration.
Frank Rich New York Review of Books Jul 2010 15min Permalink
When one of the best young chemists in the world took his own life, Harvard was forced to reconsider the relationship between PhD students and their (often Nobel Prize-winning) advisers.
Stephen S. Hall New York Times Magazine Nov 1998 25min Permalink
Inside the competitive, lucrative, swashbuckling world of DWI attorneys in Houston.
Mike Giglio Houston Press Nov 2009 20min Permalink
An interview with Lawrence Schiller, himself one of the great interviewers of his time, whose research fueled Norman Mailer’s Executioner’s Song.
Lawrence Schiller, Suzanne Snider The Believer May 2010 25min Permalink
An emerging school of therapy says that scripting your dreams while awake could eliminate the worst ones. Not everyone thinks that’s healthy.
Sarah Kershaw New York Times Jul 2010 Permalink
What the great romantic novels of history can tell us about “seduction theory” and the cult of the pickup artist.
Seventeen years after taking the iconic “Afghan Girl” photograph for National Geographic, Steve McCurry went back to find her.
Cathy Newman National Geographic Apr 2002 Permalink
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Vignettes of the residents of South Elliot Place.
Stacy Abramson New York Times Jul 2010 Permalink
A day in the life of a Brooklyn laundromat.
N. R. Kleinfield New York Times Jan 2010 10min Permalink
Should modern medicine shift its end-of-life priorities, focusing less on staving off death and more on improving a patient’s last days?
Atul Gawande New Yorker May 2011 50min Permalink
Is there really such a thing as brain death?
Gary Greenberg New Yorker Aug 2001 20min Permalink
A Hollywood screenwriter finds out his identity’s been stolen when a hooker calls–from his private office–demanding to be paid for the sex they didn’t just have.
Josh Friedman Huck's Blog Jul 2010 15min Permalink
John Friend, who founded a new school of yoga, says the practice should be about both exercise and spirituality. Oh, and making money.
Mimi Swartz New York Times Magazine Jul 2010 Permalink
A writer for Conan O’Brien on how The Tonight Show really ended and on how his boss got screwed.
Todd Levin GQ Jul 2010 20min Permalink
Erich Spangenberg is in the business of owning other people’s ideas. He makes a fortune.
Heather Skyler Good Jun 2009 10min Permalink
Her suicide made headlines around the world after classmates were indicted on felony charges related to bullying. The real story isn’t that simple.
Emily Bazelon Slate Jul 2010 15min Permalink
A series on the U.S. intelligence system.
Dana Priest, William M. Arkin Washington Post Jul 2010 55min Permalink
The shoot-first-and-ask-questions-later culture of the 101st Airborne Division, an execution of captured Iraqi prisoners, and how far up the chain of command responsibility lies.
Raffi Khatchadourian New Yorker Aug 2009 1h Permalink
An interview with an ex-CIA agent who is a world expert on the history of car bombing.
Christopher Watt The Walrus Sep 2008 15min Permalink
Inside the bleak world of Joe Francis, the man behind the “Girls Gone Wild” franchise.
Claire Hoffman The Los Angeles Times Aug 2006 25min Permalink
The few who got to view Jerry Lewis’s notorious The Day the Clown the Cried, set at Auschwitz, piece together memories of their surreal personal screenings.
Bruce Handy Spy May 1992 Permalink
Bill Murray grants a rare interview and appears to admit, among other things, that he occasionally approaches strangers from behind on the streets of NYC, puts his hands over their eyes, and says “guess who.”
Bill Murray, Dan Fierman GQ Jul 2010 15min Permalink
Dozens of young adults in rural Wales are hanging themselves, feeding an epidemic of copycat suicides that experts are have been unable to contain.
Alex Shoumatoff Vanity Fair Feb 2009 25min Permalink
In March of 1991, Vanilla Ice had the #1 album in the country (To the Extreme), a movie about to be released (TMNT II: The Secret of the Ooze), and a dogged belief that his 15 minutes weren’t about to end.
Linda Sanders EW Mar 1991 10min Permalink
A teenage love triangle turns tragic in Pinellas Park, Florida.
Lane DeGregory The St. Petersburg Times Jul 2010 15min Permalink