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A profile of Sam Shepard.
John Lahr New Yorker Feb 2010 20min Permalink
A profile of the attorney.
Jia Tolentino New Yorker Sep 2017 35min Permalink
The life and times of Nora.
Kale Williams Oregon Live Oct 2017 40min Permalink
On Joan Didion.
Patricia Lockwood London Review of Books Dec 2017 10min Permalink
The life and death of the racehorse Secretariat.
William Nack Sports Illustrated Jun 1990 30min Permalink
The rise and fall of CrossFit’s science crusader.
Stephanie M. Lee Buzzfeed Jun 2018 20min Permalink
The true story of the first Thanksgiving.
Charles C. Mann Smithsonian Dec 2005 30min Permalink
The legacy of the Guatemelan adoption industry.
Rachel Nolan Harper's Mar 2019 30min Permalink
The dark world of online murder markets.
Brian Merchant Harper's Dec 2019 30min Permalink
How the “Apple of Pot” collapsed.
Ben Schreckinger, Mona Zhang Politico May 2020 25min Permalink
William Barr’s state of emergency.
Mattathias Schwartz New York Times Magazine Jun 2020 30min Permalink
John Ackerman has spent millions procuring a majority of the known caves in Minnesota, which add up to dozens of miles of underground passageways and likely make him the largest cave owner in the U.S. He collects and charts them in the name of preservation, but his controversial methods have created many opponents.
Matthew Sherrill Outside Jun 2020 20min Permalink
A work trip to Turkmenistan.
James Lomax London Review of Books Jul 2020 15min Permalink
A profile of the singer.
Claudia Rankine Vogue Sep 2020 20min Permalink
A profile of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Michelle Ruiz Vanity Fair Oct 2020 25min Permalink
There is an alternate definition for meat, one that simply means the thing inside of the thing—i.e., the meat of a coconut or the meat of a problem. My inquiry aimed to understand the living, the dead, and the part in the middle as well, the thing inside of the thing. I’m trying to tell you why I had finally resolved to taste whale.
Wyatt Williams Harper's Aug 2021 25min Permalink
Policing the world of experimental research in the age of TED talks and Freakonomics.
Jerry Adler Pacific Standard May 2014 20min Permalink
The fall of PCCare247, an Indian company in the business of selling fixes to problems that didn’t exist.
Nate Anderson Ars Technica May 2014 15min Permalink
The story of one of the 74,000 children who come to this country each year alone and undocumented.
Alexandra Starr New York Sep 2014 10min Permalink
A hardcore night of Dungeons & Dragons with artist Zak Smith and his coterie of porn star players.
Vanessa Veselka Matter Oct 2014 25min Permalink
Inside the stronghold of Commander Pigeon, “collector of lost and exiled men.”
Jen Percy The New Republic Oct 2014 20min Permalink
A profile of Christine Quinn, odds-on favorite to be the next mayor of New York City.
Jonathan Van Meter New York Jan 2013 30min Permalink
A look at the Mexican drug wars from the point of view of a narco’s mistress in Juárez.
Ricardo C. Ainslie Texas Monthly Apr 2013 15min Permalink
On the history of Earth Day and the failure of the modern environmental movement.
Nicholas Lemann New Yorker Apr 2013 15min Permalink
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The hunt for a secretive network of British men obsessed with accumulating and cataloguing the eggs of rare birds.
Julian Rubinstein New Yorker Jul 2013 30min Permalink