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Trying to parent my Black teenagers through protest and pandemic.
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Trying to parent my Black teenagers through protest and pandemic.
Carvell Wallace New York Times Magazine Jun 2020 30min Permalink
In Minneapolis, a group of activists take over a Sheraton and open it to the homeless, banning police.
Wes Enzinna Harper's Sep 2020 Permalink
How breakfast got served at the Flamingo hotel in Las Vegas.
Burkhard Bilger New Yorker Sep 2005 30min Permalink
The very real, totally bizarre bucatini shortage of 2020.
Rachel Handler Grub Street Dec 2020 20min Permalink
An interview with the historian Robin D.G. Kelley.
Vinson Cunningham Los Angeles Times Mar 2021 10min Permalink
A 2018 profile of the tennis star.
Louisa Thomas Racquet Mar 2018 Permalink
Qaddafi’s son is alive. And he wants to take Libya back.
Robert Worth The New York Times Magazine Jul 2021 30min Permalink
A profile of the actor, who died Monday.
Kevin Manahan NJ.com Aug 2012 15min Permalink
Tensions eat away at a relationship between a musician and his girlfriend.
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Katie Brittain Vol 1. Brooklyn May 2014 Permalink
One famous critic (Adler) takes another (Pauline Kael) to task for a collection of reviews that is “without Kael- or Simon-like exaggeration, not simply, jarringly, piece by piece, line by line, and without interruption, worthless.”
Renata Adler New York Review of Books Aug 1980 30min Permalink
For nearly a decade, Laura Albert lived a double life as troubled teen turned cult writer J.T. Leroy, writing books, chatting constantly with celebrities, and convincing another woman to appear as J.T. Leroy in public.
Nancy Rommelmann LA Weekly Feb 2008 35min Permalink
The money has dried up, the models are broken and “there are simply many, many more high-priced lawyers today than there is high-priced legal work.” On the end of an era.
Noam Scheiber The New Republic Jul 2013 25min Permalink
Following the hunters and poachers, servers and saviors of the little-known pangolin—a scaly, endangered creature sold by the thousands on the black market.
John D. Sutter CNN Apr 2014 45min Permalink
The Sinaloa cartel was flooding cocaine across the border. The DEA was listening. A four-part series based on hundreds of pages of transcripts from intercepted calls, court testimony, and investigative reports.
Richard Marosi The Los Angeles Times Jul 2011 35min Permalink
A 2003 essay that foreshadows the emergence of the Islamic State a decade later – an insurgency incited by American policy in Iraq during the early days of the war.
Mark Danner New York Review of Books Sep 2003 15min Permalink
Three years ago, Shell spent millions to send a colossal oil rig to drill in the remote seas of the Arctic. But the Arctic had other plans.
McKenzie Funk New York Times Magazine Dec 2014 35min Permalink
How Billy Walters, the world’s most successful gambler, keeps winning.
Mike Fish ESPN the Magazine Feb 2015 10min Permalink
Sitting alone in his San Jose office, Michael Burry saw the bubble in the subprime-mortgage market before anyone else. So he convinced Wall Street to let him bet on it, even though few were betting on him. The article that became The Big Short.
Michael Lewis Vanity Fair Apr 2010 45min Permalink
There were so many ways the two planes could have avoided the collision. The odds were so slim. But high above the Amazon in 2006, a combination of technology and human fallibility brought them together.
William Langewiesche Vanity Fair Jan 2009 50min Permalink
The life and times of female comedy LP sensation Rusty Warren, whose bawdy hits like ‘Knockers Up’ commanded the charts and the lounges of the 1960s Midwest.
Kliph Nesteroff WFMU Blog Jun 2010 20min Permalink
Brian Windhorst was one of the first reporters to cover LeBron James. He was there in high school. There at the draft. There in Cleveland. And now he’s there in Miami, though the relationship is far from what it used to be.
The implosion of the daily fantasy industry is a bro-classic tale of hubris, recklessness, political naïveté and a kill-or-be-killed culture.
Don Van Natta Jr. ESPN the Magazine Aug 2016 25min Permalink
On the eve of the Iditarod, our favorite articles ever written about "the last great race."
Spending the summer as a tour guide on a glacier.
Blair Braverman The Atavist Jun 2015 30min
A trip to the Iditarod.
Brian Phillips Grantland Apr 2013 20min
Following the Yukon Quest, the Iditarod’s thousand-mile rival.
John Balzar Los Angeles Times Mar 1997 20min
Behind the scenes at the Yukon Quest.
Eva Holland SB Nation Mar 2013 20min
On Alaska’s mushing dynasties.
Ben McGrath New Yorker Apr 2013 40min
A profile of the Michael Jordan of mushing.
Mar 1997 – Jun 2015 Permalink
Our archive of articles from The Awl, which announced today that it will close. The Hairpin will also cease publication.
The 1979 Oscars pitted Hal Ashby’s Coming Home against Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter, wildly different films both on the topic of the Vietnam War.
Peter Biskind Vanity Fair Mar 2008 40min Permalink