Ghosting
The complicated process of ghostwriting Julian Assange’s autobiography.
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The complicated process of ghostwriting Julian Assange’s autobiography.
Andrew O’Hagan London Review of Books Feb 2014 1h40min Permalink
A history of Grove Press and its publisher Barney Rosset.
Loren Glass Los Angeles Review of Books Oct 2011 50min Permalink
On the particular genius of Tolstoy.
Janet Malcolm New York Review of Books Jun 2015 15min Permalink
What remains of the ghost town of Centralia, Pennsylvania.
Anthony Taille Narratively Apr 2015 25min Permalink
A survey of the 20th century’s greatest horror writer’s afterlife of influence.
Matthew Baldwin The Morning News Mar 2012 10min Permalink
A profile of Ann Coulter, “the glowing scimitar of the American right.”
George Gurley The New York Observer Aug 2002 15min Permalink
A profile of Doc Johnson, “the Procter & Gamble of sex toys.”
Dave Gardetta Los Angeles Jul 2012 25min Permalink
On the psychology of a rescue worker after years of responding to disaster.
Hampton Sides Outside Jan 2011 20min Permalink
The life and death of OR4, the patriarch of Oregon’s reintroduced wolves.
Emma Marris Outside Oct 2017 20min Permalink
On the work of Rachel Cusk.
Patricia Lockwood London Review of Books May 2018 15min Permalink
A profile of the chairman of Fox News.
On the ubiquity of forest fires.
William Finnegan New York Review of Books Aug 2018 15min Permalink
The biographer before the publication of “The Passage of Power.”
Charles McGrath New York Times Apr 2012 20min Permalink
“Economic theory as it exists increasingly resembles a shed full of broken tools.”
David Graeber New York Review of Books Nov 2019 20min Permalink
A year of reporting reveals a culture of incest, rape, and abuse.
Sarah McClure Cosmopolitan Jan 2020 15min Permalink
A prolific con artist, decades of grift, and a trail of shattered relationships.
Katherine Laidlaw Toronto Life Sep 2020 25min Permalink
On the discovery of a billion dollars worth of artwork looted by Nazis in the cramped apartment of a Munich recluse.
Alex Shoumatoff Vanity Fair Apr 2014 25min Permalink
A profile of Grace Coddington, creative director of Vogue and break-out star of The September Issue.
Julie Kavanagh Intelligent Life Jan 2010 10min Permalink
Junky, out-of-date science fuels jury errors and tragic miscarriages of justice. How can we throw it out of court?
Douglas Starr Aeon Dec 2014 15min Permalink
Navigating the sewers of London and summiting the peaks of Paris with a group of urban explorers.
Matthew Power GQ Mar 2013 25min Permalink
Firsthand accounts of the largest and most ambitious internment drive of a minority group since Nazi Germany, emerging from a region of totalitarian surveillance and control.
Ben Mauk The Believer Oct 2019 1h30min Permalink
South of San Francisco, in a fertile corner of California that feeds much of the country, working families are sleeping in shelters and parking lots.
Brian Goldstone California Sunday Nov 2019 20min Permalink
Accused money launderers left a path of bankrupt factories, shuttered buildings, and hundreds of steelworkers out of jobs.
Michael Sallah Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Apr 2021 30min Permalink
The decade-long journey of a novel–Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding–through the unpredictable world of book publishing.
Keith Gessen Vanity Fair Oct 2011 55min Permalink
On spending six months on the southern coast of Argentina with the “Jane Goodall of penguins” and several hundred of her research subjects.
Eric Wagner Orion Jul 2011 15min Permalink