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A history of spam on the internet.
Kevin Driscoll Los Angeles Review of Books Aug 2013 20min Permalink
Scenes of grief, from the sister of comedian Harris Wittels.
Stephanie Wittels Wachs Medium Jun 2015 15min Permalink
Creating – and revising – the Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm.
Marina Warner New York Review of Books Jun 2015 15min Permalink
A profile of Carmelo Anthony, newly anointed savior of the New York Knicks.
Will Leitch New York Apr 2011 10min Permalink
On the life and afterlife of Che Guevara.
Christopher Hitchens New York Review of Books Jul 1997 25min Permalink
Fears of witchcraft leave a trail of dismembered bodies in Buenaventura, Colombia.
Juan Camilo Maldonado Vice News Dec 2014 15min Permalink
On being kicked out of Doris Lessing’s house.
Jenny Diski London Review of Books May 2015 15min Permalink
The stories of a record-setting chain of transplants.
Kevin Sack New York Times Feb 2012 Permalink
A profile of William Heirens, the convicted “Lipstick Killer” of Chicago, who died this week.
Robert McClory Chicago Reader Aug 1989 35min Permalink
On the morality of procreation and the origins of birth control.
Elizabeth Kolbert New Yorker Apr 2012 10min Permalink
Millions of dollars worth of nuts are disappearing in California.
Peter Vigneron Outside May 2017 15min Permalink
A critique of Facebook.
John Lanchester London Review of Books Aug 2017 35min Permalink
A history of modern capitalism from the perspective of the straw.
Alexis C. Madrigal The Atlantic Jun 2018 15min Permalink
In a sea of skeptics, this physician was one of fibromyalgia patients’ few true allies. Or was he?
Eric Boodman STAT Oct 2021 30min Permalink
A survivor of conversion therapy gets the wedding of her dreams.
Michael J. Mooney D Magazine Sep 2014 15min Permalink
The history of a color.
Michael Gorra New York Review of Books Sep 2014 10min Permalink
On disposing of a dead sea lion, and the pitfalls of memory.
Craig Davidson The Walrus Jul 2013 20min Permalink
An assessment of the former Secretary of the Treasury.
William D. Cohan Businessweek Sep 2012 20min Permalink
On a biography of David Foster Wallace.
Christian Lorentzen London Review of Books Oct 2012 15min Permalink
Behind the scenes of the lovely, strange world of competitive eating.
Jon Ronson GQ Oct 2012 20min Permalink
A profile of Reinhold Messner, the greatest mountain climber of all time.
Caroline Alexander National Geographic Nov 2006 35min Permalink
A profile of Google’s new CEO, “the most powerful tech giant you’ve never heard of.”
Facing the inevitability of taking over care for someone who can’t take care of themselves.
Ciara O'Rourke SeattleMet Oct 2016 20min Permalink
The death of a Russian dissident and how radioactive poison became a tool of assassins.
Will Storr Matter Nov 2013 35min Permalink
An Englishman’s eighteen years of exile-by-choice.
James Wood London Review of Books Feb 2014 25min Permalink