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A history of hoboes in America.
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A history of hoboes in America.
Lisa Hix Collectors Weekly Apr 2015 40min Permalink
A profile of Eric Holder.
Wil S. Hylton GQ Dec 2010 25min Permalink
Mini-Currys and the future of basketball.
Danny Chau The Ringer Jun 2016 15min Permalink
A profile of football coach Jon Gruden.
Kelefa Sanneh New Yorker Dec 2011 20min Permalink
The hidden history of poker and crypto.
Morgen Peck Breaker Oct 2018 20min Permalink
A profile of Bonnie “Prince” Billy.
Alex Pappademas GQ Nov 2018 20min Permalink
A profile of Bruce Springsteen.
Michael Hainey Esquire Nov 2018 30min Permalink
A profile of Toni Morrison.
Hilton Als New Yorker Oct 2003 40min Permalink
A profile of André Leon Talley.
Vanessa Grigoriadis Vanity Fair Sep 2013 20min Permalink
Earlier this month, while China's leaders were staging a grandiose celebration of their revolution's 40th birthday, thousands of somber Hong Kong residents gathered for a dreary commemoration of their own. Far from the fireworks display in Beijing, Hong Kongers huddled in a rainstorm near the bronze statue of Queen Victoria, singing patriotic songs and listening to mournful poems dedicated to those who died in Tiananmen Square.
Margaret Scott The New York Times Oct 1989 20min Permalink
My main purpose in this address is simply to convince you that this desire is one of the great permanent mainsprings of human action... Unless you take measures to prevent it, this desire is going to be one of the chief motives of your life, from the first day on which you enter your profession until the day when you are too old to care.
C.S. Lewis Jan 1944 15min Permalink
A profile of Zendaya.
Hunter Harris GQ Jan 2021 20min Permalink
“The dirty secret of American higher education is that student-loan interest rates are almost irrelevant. It’s not the cost of the loan that’s the problem, it’s the principal—the appallingly high tuition costs that have been soaring at two to three times the rate of inflation, an irrational upward trajectory eerily reminiscent of skyrocketing housing prices in the years before 2008.”
Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone Aug 2013 20min Permalink
The rise and ruin of Couchsurfing.com.
Andrew Federov Input Sep 2021 25min Permalink
He has a staff of 300. His website gets more traffic than Gawker and has 300,000 paying subscribers. He has a clothing line, a string of bestselling books, a movie studio and a radio show syndicated on 400 stations. A profile of Glenn Beck, mogul.
Michael J. Mooney D Magazine Oct 2014 20min Permalink
A rape case in which most of the evidence lies in the archives of Twitter and Instagram divides a football-crazed town of 18,400.
Juliet Macur, Nate Schweber New York Times Dec 2012 Permalink
In a matter of months she became one of the world’s most famous porn stars. Three years later, she was dead. The rise and fall of Savannah.
Mike Sager GQ Nov 1994 35min Permalink
They were florists working in Amsterdam’s largest flower market. They were also members of one of the most powerful arms of the Italian mafia. An investigation into how organized crime has gone global.
Steve Scherer Reuters Apr 2016 Permalink
How FPAQ, the Canadian group that controls 72 percent of the world’s supply of maple syrup, caused one of the greatest agricultural crimes in history.
Rich Cohen Vanity Fair Dec 2016 15min Permalink
How the 1983 assassination of his father, the president of American University of Beirut, shaped the Golden State Warriors basketball coach.
John Branch New York Times Dec 2016 Permalink
On the lives of the men who gang-raped a woman on a Delhi bus last year, the life of their victim, and the people left out of India’s growing prosperity.
Jason Burke The Guardian Sep 2013 30min Permalink
The rise and fall of Intrade, the betting market for world events—elections, hurricanes, Academy Awards—and the death of its CEO near the top of Everest.
Graeme Wood Pacific Standard Nov 2013 20min Permalink
In 1916, a pair of 29-year-old women, bored with their lives in Upstate New York, took teaching jobs in a remote area of the Rocky Mountains. This is the story of what they found.
Dorothy Wickenden New Yorker Apr 2009 30min Permalink
From the Tower of Babel to the birthplace of Abraham, from Saddam’s ruined palaces to fortified blast-proof checkpoints, a diary from a nine-day, eight-night tour of Mespotamia/Iraq.
Saki Knafo GQ Apr 2011 20min Permalink
On Edward Tufte, the great data visualization (read: charts and graphs) theorist and author of 1983’s The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, one of the most successful self-published books ever produced.
Joshua Yaffa Washington Monthly May 2011 40min Permalink