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Best Article Arts History Music

The Stories of One Brooklyn Block

Vignettes of the residents of South Elliot Place.

Stacy Abramson New York Times Jul 2010 Permalink

Best Article

24-Hour Cycle

A day in the life of a Brooklyn laundromat.

N. R. Kleinfield New York Times Jan 2010 10min Permalink

Best Article Science

As Good as Dead

Is there really such a thing as brain death?

Gary Greenberg New Yorker Aug 2001 20min Permalink

Best Article

Kill Company

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

Best Article Business Sex

‘Baby, Give Me a Kiss’

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

Best Article Science World

Moscow's Stray Dogs

The complex, highly evolved world of Moscow’s subway-riding stray dogs.

Susanne Sternthal The Financial Times Jan 2010 Permalink

Best Article Arts Food

Some Things Never Die

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

Best Article

Running Away

April Savino, a teenage homeless runaway, lived in Grand Central Terminal from 1984 until 1987 when she committed suicide on the steps of a nearby church.

Dennis Hevesi New York Times Oct 1988 20min Permalink

Best Article Crime

Lost in the Jihad

How the case against John Walker Lindh collapsed.

Jane Mayer New Yorker Mar 2003 35min Permalink

Best Article

Afghanistan: ‘So This is Paktya’

Night raids by the “Hash Monster” and other perils facing American soldiers at a remote base in the wilderness of the Paktya Province as they attempt to turn over power to the Afghan Army.

Neil Shea The American Scholar Jun 2010 10min Permalink

Best Article Sports World

The World at His Feet

Argentina’s Lio Messi, the best soccer player on the planet, stands all of 5’7” and needed growth-hormone injections to get there.

S.L. Price Sports Illustrated May 2010 20min Permalink

Best Article History

Detroit Arcadia

Wanders through the emptied post-American landscape.

Rebecca Solnit Harper's Jun 2007 Permalink

Best Article Crime

Trial By Fire

The arson case that may have led Texas to execute an innocent man.

David Grann New Yorker Sep 2009 1h5min Permalink

Best Article Arts Media

Death on the CNN Curve

The nation watched live as Robert O’Donnell rescued Baby Jessica from that well in Texas in October, 1987. Then they stopped watching, and Robert O’Donnell was lost without the attention.

Lisa Belkin New York Times Magazine Jul 1995 30min Permalink

Best Article Tech

The Enemy Within

The Conficker ‘worm’ has replicated itself across tens of millions of computers. Only a few hundred people have the knowledge to recreate how, and no one (except its anonymous maker) fully understands why.

Mark Bowden The Atlantic May 2010 35min Permalink

Best Article

That Which Does Not Kill Me...

Inside the twisted, half-conscious world of Jure Robic, the Slovene soldier who might be the world’s best ultra-endurance athlete.

Daniel Coyle New York Times Feb 2006 Permalink

Best Article History

Atomic John

The truck driver who reverse engineered the atomic bomb.

David Samuels New Yorker Dec 2008 40min Permalink

Best Article

60 Hours of Terror

The defining, minute-by-minute account of the 2008 attacks in Mumbai.

Jason Motlagh The Virginia Quarterly Review Nov 2009 15min Permalink

Best Article Sports

The Dirtiest Player

In the wake of a brazen but mysterious Philadelphia gunfight, Marvin Harrison, the man who holds the NFL record for receptions in a season, may find himself with a permanent record of a different sort.

Jason Fagone GQ Feb 2010 25min Permalink

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