Interview: Mike Tyson
The champ is now a vegan, claims to be broke, and says he feels freer than ever before. “I have this uncanny ability to look at myself in the mirror and say, ‘This is a pig. You are a fucking piece of shit.’”
The champ is now a vegan, claims to be broke, and says he feels freer than ever before. “I have this uncanny ability to look at myself in the mirror and say, ‘This is a pig. You are a fucking piece of shit.’”
Ivan Solotaroff, Mike Tyson Details Jul 2010 Permalink
Admiring evangelicals are helping David Berkowitz, the imprisoned serial killer who murdered six people in NYC during the summer of 1977, with an unusual image makeover.
Serge F. Kovaleski New York Times Jul 2010 Permalink
Sandinista, reverend, and president of the U.N. General Assembly.
James Verini The New Republic Jun 2009 Permalink
A interview with David Mitchell, author of the recent The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet and Cloud Atlas, on stretching a fictional universe across multiple novels and centuries of real history.
Wyatt Mason New York Times Jul 2010 Permalink
A profile of Tom Donohue, CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the sixth-highest paid lobbyist in the country. Since Obama took office, Donohue has scared-up tens of millions in new donations.
James Verini Washington Monthly Jul 2010 20min Permalink
The complex, highly evolved world of Moscow’s subway-riding stray dogs.
The Great Recession meant great things for Nick Popovich, who gets paid by banks to take planes back from hard-up millionaires.
Marc Weingarten Salon Jun 2009 15min Permalink
On January 1st, 2011, the U.S. estate tax will jump from zero to around 50%, which gives a lot of very rich elders (or perhaps more accurately, their heirs) millions of dollars in incentive to expedite death.
In the 1950s, L.S.D. became a Beverly Hills’ therapy fad, and it profoundly changed idols like Cary Grant.
Judy Balaban, Cary Beauchamp Vanity Fair Jul 2010 25min Permalink
On September 28, 1980, the Washington Post published a story by an ambitious young reporter about an 8-year-old boy addicted to heroin. The story won a Pulitzer. The boy didn’t exist.
William Green Washington Post Apr 1981 1h Permalink
The first attempt at a behind-the-scenes narrative of LeBron James joining Chris Bosh and Dwayne Wade on the Heat, a plan which had apparently been in the works since 2006.
Why all soccer fans should root for Holland to lose to Spain.
Brian Phillips Slate Jul 2010 Permalink
In post-Shock and Awe Baghdad, the relationship between a war reporter and his Iraqi guide falls apart.
Thanassis Cambanis At Length Jul 2010 35min Permalink
In the early ’80s, underground chemists cooked up synthetic versions of heroin that took over the market in California—and left young users with symptoms typically associated with Parkinson’s.
Jack Shafer Science 85 Mar 1985 Permalink
An interview with Clay Shirky on “why no medium has ever survived the indifference of 25-year-olds.”
Decca Aitkenhead The Guardian Jul 2010 10min Permalink
“What’s it like to be kidnapped and held for ransom, not as a political prisoner but as an economic one? What’s it like to live in the Ecuadoran jungle for 141 days? What’s it like not to sleep, to be bound in chains, to have your body invaded by living things, to waste away to the point of death?…What’s it like? This is what it’s like.”
When spouses get upset because their husband or wife wants to be frozen upon death, it’s not because they find the practice sacrilegious. It’s because their partner is consciously considering a future without them.
Kerry Howley New York Times Magazine Jul 2010 10min Permalink
Nitrous balloon vendors clash in the parking lots of jam band festival across the Northeast.
John H. Tucker Village Voice Jul 2010 20min Permalink
Race relations at the gigantic and soul-crushing Smithfield slaughterhouse, where annual turnover is 100 percent: 5,000 people are hired, 5,000 quit.
Charlie LeDuff New York Times Jun 2000 25min Permalink
A first-person account. “If you’re the sort of person who has only ever had to deal with colds and cuts, food poisoning and the odd virus…what strikes you most is the glacial pace of recuperation.”
Tim Lusher The Guardian Jun 2010 10min Permalink
Through a series of interviews and historical inquiries, Errol Morris dissects Anosognosia, “a condition in which a person who suffers from a disability seems unaware of or denies the existence of his or her disability.”
Errol Morris New York Times Jul 2010 Permalink
What exactly is going on politically in Thailand?
Andrew MacGregor Marshall Reuters Jul 2010 40min Permalink
Detroit is dying. But it’s not dead yet. Just ask Charlie LeDuff.
Matt Labash The Weekly Standard Dec 2008 40min Permalink
The man who keeps finding famous fingerprints on uncelebrated works of art.
David Grann New Yorker Apr 2011 1h5min Permalink
An early 1995 peek at what happens when secretive groups meet the Internet: a Scientology Usenet group, populated by believers and critics, stirs conflict that results in raids.
Wendy M. Grossman Wired Dec 1995 20min Permalink