Sunk: The Incredible Truth About a Ship That Never Should Have Sailed
How the Bounty, a busted-up replica built in 1960 for the film Mutiny on the Bounty, ended up 100 miles out to sea during the height of Hurricane Sandy.
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How the Bounty, a busted-up replica built in 1960 for the film Mutiny on the Bounty, ended up 100 miles out to sea during the height of Hurricane Sandy.
Kathryn Miles Outside Feb 2013 30min Permalink
In 1913, a ship carrying 31 explorers got stuck in the Arctic ice, hundreds of miles from civilization. The leader left to carry on the expedition. Others stuck with the boat. Help wouldn’t come for a year.
Dugald McConnell CNN Jul 2013 15min Permalink
The story of Tyrone Hood, who served 21 years for a murder he didn’t commit, and the Chicago criminal justice apparatus that allowed a serial killer to go free.
Nicholas Schmidle New Yorker Jul 2014 40min Permalink
A sumo wrestling tournament. A failed coup ending in seppuku. A search for a forgotten man. How one writer’s trip to Japan became a journey through oblivion.
Brian Phillips Grantland Nov 2014 10min Permalink
“For people who pay close attention to the state of American fiction, he has become a kind of superhero.”
Joel Lovell New York Times Magazine Jan 2013 25min Permalink
Manson at 79: in poor health and walking with a cane, obsessed with Vincent Bugliosi, willing to talk at length with a reporter for the first time in years, and visited every weekend by a 25-year-old woman he calls Star.
Erik Hedegaard Rolling Stone Nov 2013 40min Permalink
A trip to the Cannabis Cup serves as a backdrop for the story of how the War on Drugs revolutionized the way marijuana is cultivated in America.
Michael Pollan New York Times Magazine Feb 1995 30min Permalink
In the first seven months of 2011, 94,000 people were sued for illegally downloading porn. Not one case has been decided by a jury. On the industry’s new strategy to make downloaders pay.
Keegan Hamilton Seattle Weekly Aug 2011 Permalink
Hanging out in Moscow with Russia’s yuppie, 20-something journalist revolutionaries:
In other words, the protest was being brought to you by the same people you would have relied on, weeks earlier, for restaurant picks.
Michael Idov New York Jan 2012 20min Permalink
What happened when the founder of North Face and Esprit bought a chunk of Chile the size of a small state, intending to live with a select group inside it and turn it case study for ecological preservation. It turned out, however, that Chileans didn’t really like that idea.
William Langewiesche The Atlantic Jun 1999 20min Permalink
On the Republican slate for the 2016 presidential election: “Of the dozen or so people who have declared or are thought likely to declare, every one can be described as a full-blown adult failure.”
Chris Lehmann LRB Jun 2015 15min Permalink
Kim Suozzi, who died at 23, chose to have her brain preserved for future revival. It’s not as far-fetched a prospect as you’d think.
Amy Harmon New York Times Sep 2015 Permalink
Carol, who was out for a walk one afternoon, saw me marching around and shouted across the street: “YOU SURE WANT TO FIND THAT CAT!”
“YES,” I yelled back. “I SURE DO.”
Alex Heard Outside Mar 2018 15min Permalink
A controversial billion-dollar citizenship-for-sale business led the elections firm to conduct clandestine campaigns across the Caribbean, insiders say.
Ann Marlowe Fast Company Jun 2018 15min Permalink
A charming assistant funeral home director named Bernie Tiede murders a wealthy widow, keeps her in a freezer for months, finally gets caught, and still has the town's sympathy as his case goes to trial. The story that became Richard Linklater's Bernie.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Jan 1998 20min Permalink
After the success of her novel Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen spent years trying to prove a man’s innocence. Now she’s “absolutely broke” and “seriously ill,” and her next book is “years past deadline.”
Abbott Kahler The Marshall Project Mar 2021 35min Permalink
For centuries, dowsers have claimed the ability to find groundwater, precious metals, and other quarry using divining rods and an uncanny intuition. Is it the real deal or woo-woo?
Dan Schwartz Outside May 2021 20min Permalink
Residents have lived near more than 100 massive petroleum storage tanks for decades, never really knowing if they’re breathing in dangerous chemicals. Now they’re fighting to find out.
Kathryn Miles Boston Globe Magazine Jun 2021 15min Permalink
Gavin McInnes used to be known as a Vice magazine co-founder with controversial political leanings and an affinity for darkly unfunny jokes. Now, he’s also known as the founder of the far-right group the Proud Boys.
Adam Leith Gollner Vanity Fair Jun 2021 Permalink
It seemed like an easy crime to stop: protected Indonesian rainforest, cut for coffee farms. But a globalized economy can undermine even the best-laid plans.
Wyatt Williams New York Times Magazine Aug 2021 30min Permalink
For 187 harrowing minutes, the president watched his supporters attack the Capitol—and resisted pleas to stop them.
What it’s like to work for, compete against, and find out you’re the biological father of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. An excerpt from The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon.
Brad Stone Businessweek Oct 2013 30min Permalink
“The only problem is he was so successful that Hollywood decided to devour his Xanadu, with premium vodka parties and assistants scouring the Park City Albertsons for Fiji water. ‘It makes me fucking nuts,’ says Redford.”
Stephen Rodrick Men's Journal Nov 2013 25min Permalink
Your local police department probably has a $400,00 device that listens in on cellphones. Soon your neighbor will be able to buy the same thing for $1,500.
Robert Kolker Businessweek Mar 2016 15min Permalink
When you’ve never eaten a peanut butter and jelly sandwich because the idea of peanut butter and jelly touching seems like too much, you turn to legendary chef Daniel Boulud for help.
Mark Anthony Green GQ Mar 2016 20min Permalink