
The Egg Men
How breakfast got served at the Flamingo hotel in Las Vegas.
Great articles, every Saturday.
How breakfast got served at the Flamingo hotel in Las Vegas.
Burkhard Bilger New Yorker Sep 2005 30min Permalink
Surviving a trip to see the family for Thanksgiving.
“How I envy people who enjoy the company of their parents without the aid of pharmaceuticals.”
Reprinted from Home for the Holidays and Other Calamities.
Chris Radant Boston Phoenix Nov 1990 10min Permalink
Henry Orenstein survived three years in concentration camps before creating Transformers and poker cameras.
Abigail Jones Newsweek Dec 2016 25min Permalink
A couple, a caregiver, and a promise.
Christopher Solomon GQ Nov 2020 20min Permalink
A 17,000-word exploration of the Sahara Desert, the hottest place on Earth.
William Langewiesche The Atlantic Nov 1991 1h10min Permalink
No house is private. It may be purchased, and thus legally private property, but it doesn’t stand alone. Through its extending wires, pipes, inputs and outputs, the house (with few off-grid exceptions) is tied up in the cyborg systems of the city and the supply chains and logistical inputs that extend around the globe.
Kelly Pendergrast Real Life Aug 2020 15min Permalink
Searching for Dave Chappelle ten years after he left his show.
Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah The Believer Oct 2013 35min Permalink
The author teaches a college class about what it means to be white in America, but interrogating that question as a black woman in the real world is much harder to do.
Claudia Rankine New York Times Magazine Jul 2019 25min Permalink
How political science understands voters.
Lous Menand New Yorker Aug 2004 Permalink
Specialists Solomon Bangayan and Marc Seiden fought together in Bravo Company’s 3rd Platoon in Iraq. Both were killed. Here’s how they made it home.
Dan Baum New Yorker Aug 2004 30min Permalink
On Vladimir Nabokov.
Patricia Lockwood London Review of Books Nov 2020 20min Permalink
Trump is vowing to designate the movement as a terrorist organization. But its supporters believe that they are protecting their communities—and that confronting fascists with violence can be justified.
Luke Mogelson New Yorker Oct 2020 40min Permalink
In 2003, a man robbed a bank with a bomb around his neck. It exploded shortly thereafter, taking his life and leaving authorities to try to figure out who had put it there.
Rich Schapiro Wired Dec 2010 20min Permalink
“A quarantine facial-hair experiment led me to a deep consideration of my Blackness.”
Wesley Morris New York Times Magazine Oct 2020 20min Permalink
Nelson Cruz’s family was so sure Judge ShawnDya Simpson would free him, they brought a change of clothes to his hearing. Then everything took an unexpected turn.
Joe Sexton ProPublica Oct 2020 50min Permalink
In 2019, President Trump pardoned Army Lieutenant Clint Lorance, who was serving a 20-year sentence for ordering the murder of two Afghan civilians.
To Lorance’s defenders, the act was long overdue. To members of his platoon, it was a gross miscarriage of justice.
Nathaniel Penn California Sunday Sep 2020 1h20min Permalink
“Donald J. Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency. In his first year in the White House, he paid another $750.”
RUSS BUETTNER, Susanne Craig, Mike McIntire New York Times Sep 2020 40min Permalink
How eBay’s Global Security and Resiliency team ran a rogue campaign to terrorize a blogger couple with insects, pornography and pizza.
DAVID STREITFELD New York Times Sep 2020 Permalink
Where does Strawberry-Kiwi Snapple come from? Givaudan is part of a tiny, secretive industry that produces new flavors.
Raffi Khatchadourian New Yorker Nov 2009 40min Permalink
A psychoanalytic reading of social media and the death drive.
Immigrant struggles in America forged a bond that became even tighter after my mother’s A.L.S. diagnosis. Then, as COVID-19 threatened, Chinese nationalists began calling us traitors to our country.
Jiayang Fan New Yorker Sep 2020 35min Permalink
Three teenage boys decide to set sail after a night of drinking. They go missing for 51 days.
Michael Finkel GQ May 2011 35min Permalink
A theatre company has spent years bringing catharsis to the traumatized. In the coronavirus era, that’s all of us.
Elif Batuman New Yorker Aug 2020 30min Permalink
On losing your Beloved in 2020.
Jesmyn Ward Vanity Fair Sep 2020 10min Permalink
How did a couple who built an empire of yoga studios and homes with “living walls” end up as pandemic villains?
Bridget Read The Cut Aug 2020 25min Permalink