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Pimp, brawler, Old Master.
Stephen Akey The Millions May 2014 25min Permalink
Why the second Indiana Jones was so dark.
Bryan Curtis Grantland Aug 2012 15min Permalink
A glimpse into the overcrowded California State Prison, Los Angeles County.
Joe Domanick Los Angeles Sep 2009 20min Permalink
When a writer’s daily routine gets out of control.
One morning, as I gobbled my doughnut and slurped my coffee, thinking to myself, "What a fantastic doughnut, what an amazing coffee," I realised that I had not just thought this but was actually saying aloud, "What a fantastic doughnut! What a totally fantastic experience!", and that this was attracting the attention of the other customers, one of whom turned to me and said, "You like the doughnuts, huh?"
Geoff Dyer The Guardian Jun 2010 Permalink
Chaos and heroism during a Kentucky school shooting.
Andrew Wolfson, Justin Sayers The Courier Journal Feb 2018 10min 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
Is being a war correspondent worth the risk?
Ed Caesar British GQ Jul 2013 20min Permalink
“The most important fast food restaurant in America is a radical burger joint in Watts.”
Willy Blackmore Eater Sep 2016 20min Permalink
The planet’s tallest animal is in far greater danger than people might think.
Ed Yong The Atlantic Mar 2020 15min Permalink
“Uncertainty, it has been shown, is more painful than certain physical pain.”
Lulu Miller The Paris Review Oct 2020 15min Permalink
The city’s drop in crime has been nothing short of miraculous. A year-long investigation into the numbers.
David Bernstein, Noah Isackson Chicago Magazine Apr–May 2014 55min Permalink
The case of Brett Kimberlin.
David Weigel The Daily Beast Aug 2014 10min Permalink
The story of twelve men trapped in a West Virginia mine, as remembered by the lone survivor.
Dennis Michael Burke Men's Journal Dec 2008 35min Permalink
How General Keith Alexander, director of the NSA, became the most powerful intelligence officer in U.S. history.
James Bamford Wired Jun 2013 20min Permalink
The murky legacy of the former Attorney General.
Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone Jul 2015 10min Permalink
On the unlikely survival (for the second time) of Kamaishi, Japan.
Charles Graeber Businessweek Apr 2011 Permalink
On a failed attack in Spokane and the fragments of homegrown terrorism in the United States.
Charles P. Pierce Esquire Aug 2011 25min Permalink
A prescient take on what the US invasion of Iraq would mean for both countries.
James Fallows The Atlantic Nov 2002 40min Permalink
A Supreme Court Justice revisits a rape trial from the 1950s.
A friendship born of mutual interest in birding stretches across the Berlin Wall.
Phil McKenna The Big Roundtable Feb 2015 35min Permalink
“I laugh off 90 percent of the stuff I’m sent,” Wu says. “But it’s the 10 percent.”
David Whitford Inc. Mar 2015 10min Permalink
On the day of the earthquake, two men went into Haiti’s Soccer Federation headquarters. Only one came out.
Wright Thompson ESPN May 2010 20min Permalink
In the throes of an epidemic, researchers investigate how to inoculate against the disease.
Siddhartha Mukherjee New Yorker Aug 2016 20min Permalink
A collection of stories about how malls revolutionized the way Americans shop, snack, and flirt.
On the visionary architects who, along with an extremely helpful tax break, gave birth to the American mall.
Malcolm Gladwell New Yorker Mar 2004 25min
A writer tries to make sense of a national landmark.
Ian Frazier The Atlantic Jul 2002 20min
Over the last five years, so-called “sweepstakes cafes,” known in Las Vegas and elsewhere as “casinos,” have opened in malls from Florida to Massachusetts. On the law-bending rise of a $10 billion industry.
Felix Gillette Businessweek Apr 2011 25min
The soap opera of an off-brand mall in West Houston.
Katy Vine Texas Monthly Sep 2002 15min
How Hollister employs the dark art of “immersive retail” to bring the allure of the mall to its flagship store in New York.
Molly Young The Believer Sep 2010 10min
Spending time with the Tonya Harding Fan Club in the wake of the assault on Nancy Kerrigan.
Susan Orlean New Yorker Feb 1995 20min
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Thousands of internal documents help explain how, through brutality and bureaucracy, the Islamic State stayed in power for so long.
Rukmini Callimachi The New York Times Apr 2018 30min Permalink