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On Norman Bel Geddes, pioneer of miniatures and maker of the “most iconic World’s Fair exhibit of all time.”
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On Norman Bel Geddes, pioneer of miniatures and maker of the “most iconic World’s Fair exhibit of all time.”
B. Alexandra Szerlip The Believer May 2012 15min Permalink
A profile of Hector Xavier Monsegur, aka Sabu, a hacker star of Anonymous and resident of a New York City housing project.
Steve Fishman New York Jun 2012 20min Permalink
Colombian traffickers have a new smuggling method of choice: specially designed submarines capable of carrying 10 tons of cocaine and covering 2,000 miles without refueling.
Frank Owen Maxim Apr 2009 15min Permalink
An indecent proposal, a crime of passion, and legends of murder in an enclave of bohemian retirees.
Chris Walker The Atavist Jan 2018 45min Permalink
For years he used fake identities to charm women out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Then his victims banded together to take him down.
Rachel Monroe The Atlantic Mar 2018 20min Permalink
With dozens of felines turning up dead around London, a pair of pet detectives set out to prove it was the work of a serial killer.
Phil Hoad The Atavist Mar 2021 50min Permalink
How the author of Friday Night Lights spent more than half a million dollars over three years on “eighty-one leather jackets, seventy-five pairs of boots, forty-one pairs of leather pants, thirty-two pairs of haute couture jeans, ten evening jackets, and 115 pairs of leather gloves.”
Buzz Bissinger GQ Mar 2013 25min Permalink
A journalist’s memories of covering the great Baltimore fire of 1904.
H.L. Mencken Newspaper Days Jan 1941 30min Permalink
A tale-of-the-tape breakdown of the 2012 presidential debates.
James Fallows The Atlantic Oct 2012 35min Permalink
A profile of Amar Bose, founder of the Bose Corporation.
Tom Clynes Popular Science Dec 2004 15min Permalink
A political history of Donald Rumsfeld.
Mark Danner New York Review of Books Nov 2013 20min Permalink
What happens when we run out of houses.
James Meek London Review of Books Jan 2014 50min Permalink
W.H. Auden’s quiet, personal pursuit of kindness and honor.
Edward Mendelson New York Review of Books Mar 2014 15min Permalink
A profile of Ludwig Minelli, the head of the Swiss assisted suicide organization Dignitas.
Bruce Falconer The Atlantic Mar 2010 30min Permalink
A profile of Bob Fishman, the impresario of CBS’s NFL production crew.
Mark Bowden The Atlantic Feb 2009 20min Permalink
The inside story of Pennsylvania’s governor and the fall of Joe Paterno.
Don Van Natta Jr. ESPN Apr 2012 25min Permalink
Inside the multibillion-dollar business of keeping foreigners out of America.
Jose M. Orduna Buzzfeed Dec 2014 25min Permalink
A profile of the Time Man of the Year for 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The story of H1N1 and one of the lives it claimed.
Thomas Lake Atlanta Magazine Jun 2010 Permalink
On the life and career of Richard Pryor, as he neared the end of both.
Hilton Als New Yorker Sep 1999 40min Permalink
The story of one of the great final acts in sports history.
David Halberstam New Yorker Dec 1998 20min Permalink
The extraordinary story of two Pacific voyages of discovery a thousand years apart.
Nathan Beacom The New Atlantis Apr 2021 25min Permalink
Samaria Rice is the mother of Tamir, not a “mother of the movement.”
Imani Perry The Cut May 2021 20min Permalink
How a distillery worker in Kentucky stole hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of bourbon, one barrel at a time.
Reeves Wiedeman Men's Journal Mar 2016 15min Permalink
A profile of Afghanistan’s outgoing president.
Mujib Mashal The Atlantic Jul 2014 20min Permalink