The Fearless Cinema of Claire Denis
A profile of the filmmaker.
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A profile of the filmmaker.
Alice Gregory New Yorker May 2018 25min Permalink
Black excellence in the land of tennis.
Claudia Rankine New York Times Magazine Aug 2015 20min Permalink
On the plight of the baobab tree.
Jaime Lowe Topic Jan 2019 25min Permalink
On the cutthroat dealings of the porta-potty business.
David Gauvey Herbert New York Feb 2019 15min Permalink
John Singleton at the release of Boyz n the Hood.
Alan Light Rolling Stone Sep 1991 10min Permalink
The timeless allure of looking through other peoples stuff.
Ann Friedman Curbed May 2019 10min Permalink
Anatomy of an outbreak.
Apoorva Mandavilli Undark Magazine Apr 2019 25min Permalink
A profile of YouTube yogi Adriene Mishler
A 2018 profile of the tennis star.
Louisa Thomas Racquet Mar 2018 Permalink
A profile of the actor, who died Monday.
Kevin Manahan NJ.com Aug 2012 15min Permalink
A profile of the comedian who’s “not so funny anymore”:
Jon Stewart has made a career of avoiding "Whooo" humor. He has flattered the prejudices of his audience, but he has always been funny, and he has always made them laugh. At the Juan Williams taping, however, at least half of Stewart's jokes elicited the sound of Whooo! instead of the sound of laughter. He's been able to concentrate his comedy into a kind of shorthand — a pause, or a raised eyebrow, is often all that is necessary now — but a stranger not cued to laugh could be forgiven for not laughing, indeed for thinking that what was going on in front of him was not comedy at all but rather high-toned journalism with a sense of humor. Which might be how Jon Stewart wants it by now.
The story of “Madam Walker,” who built a thriving empire of hair products for black women.
Hunter Oatman-Stanford Collector's Weekly Aug 2015 15min Permalink
The origin story of Gabriel García Márquez’s classic.
Paul Elie Vanity Fair Dec 2015 20min Permalink
The demise of America’s favorite mega-bookstore and the factors beyond the e-book boom that fueled the book retail meltdown.
Ben Austen Businessweek Nov 2011 10min Permalink
On the perils and poisons of mining for gold in southeastern Peru.
A patient arrives in a therapist’s office complaining of writer’s block. He’s not in search of the talking cure, though.
Irvin D. Yalom New York Times Feb 2015 10min Permalink
Dozens of young adults in rural Wales are hanging themselves, feeding an epidemic of copycat suicides that experts are have been unable to contain.
Alex Shoumatoff Vanity Fair Feb 2009 25min Permalink
Thoughts on an emerging brand of feminism and the ridiculousness of claiming that Tina Fey is unattractive.
Sady Doyle Tiger Beatdown Mar 2010 10min Permalink
On the language of hobos and the dictionaries it spawned.
John Ptak Ptak Science Jan 2011 Permalink
On 30 years of Long Island politics.
Steve Kornacki Capital New York Feb 2011 Permalink
A minute-by-minute account of one of the worst sailing disasters in American history.
Matthew Teague Smithsonian Jul 2017 25min Permalink
Was one of Detroit’s most notorious criminals also one of the FBI’s most valuable informants?
Evan Hughes The Atavist Sep 2014 1h15min Permalink
Two decades after his last deadly act of ecoterrorism, the Unabomber has become an unlikely prophet to a new generation of acolytes.
John H. Richardson New York Dec 2018 40min Permalink
Jerold Haas was on the brink of blockchain riches. Then his body was found in the woods of southern Ohio.
Brendan I. Koerner Wired Nov 2019 35min Permalink