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A Holocaust detective story: could a lampshade pulled from the ruins of Katrina really be Buchenwald artifact made of human remains?
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A Holocaust detective story: could a lampshade pulled from the ruins of Katrina really be Buchenwald artifact made of human remains?
Mark Jacobson New York Sep 2010 30min Permalink
A new strain of educational thought (and practice) involves embracing the technology of the moment - which means bringing video games into the classroom.
Sara Corbett New York Times Magazine Sep 2010 30min Permalink
The comeback of Marty Reisman, the most flamboyant figure in the history of table tennis, and the self-proclaimed greatest hardbat player ever.
Howard Jacobson Table Tennis News Jan 1999 25min Permalink
A group of childhood friends, two of whom had already climbed Everest, finds tragedy on Mont Blanc.
Ned Zeman Vanity Fair Nov 2010 20min Permalink
Tony Kushner and the burdens of being one of the last public intellectuals in American theater.
Jesse Green New York Oct 2010 20min Permalink
The fever-dream life and death of Chinese poet Gu Cheng.
Eliot Weinberger London Review of Books Jun 2005 15min Permalink
How a burst blood vessel transformed the mind of a deliberate, controlled chiropractor into that of an utterly unfiltered, massively prolific artist.
Andrew Corsello GQ Jan 1997 25min Permalink
On the illusion of the inevitable and the revolutions that ended the Eastern Bloc.
Timothy Garton Ash New York Review of Books Nov 2009 20min Permalink
An opinion piece on the structural causes of unrest in Egypt; the business fraternity, globalization, and the fate of Egyptian women.
Paul Amar Al-Jazeera English Feb 2011 Permalink
Wags Lending and the brave new world of of financing in “niches where we’re dealing with emotional borrowers.”
Patrick Clark Bloomberg Business Mar 2017 15min Permalink
Making sense of the CEO’s very public tour of America, which feels like a political campaign minus the politics.
Nitasha Tiku Buzzfeed Apr 2017 20min Permalink
In dozens of criminal trials, prosecutors have put the same gun in the hands of more than one defendant.
Ken Armstrong New Yorker Nov 2017 20min Permalink
A global network of live-work spaces is springing up to serve this new breed of millennial wanderer.
Kyle Chayka New York Times Magazine Feb 2018 15min Permalink
A 7-part investigation into the true nature of Long Island politics, through the story of street tough-turned-power broker Gary Melius.
Gus Garcia-Roberts, Sandra Peddie Newsday Feb 2018 25min Permalink
On the frontlines of extinction in the Gulf of California, where the vaquita faces its final days.
Ben Goldfarb Pacific Standard Jun 2018 25min Permalink
The 26-year-old is many things: New York Knicks center, devout Muslim, star of #NBATwitter, and enemy of the Turkish state.
Jordan Ritter Conn The Ringer Oct 2018 Permalink
The life of Robert Earl Hughes, who at more than 1,000 lbs. was named largest man on earth by the Guinness Book of World Records.
Robert Kurson Chicago Magazine Jun 2001 25min Permalink
A trip to a lobster festival leads to an examination of the culinary and ethical dimensions of cooking a live, possibly sentient, creature.
David Foster Wallace Gourmet Aug 2004 30min Permalink
How coach Gregg Popovich’s love of fine wine led to a 20-year run of success in the NBA.
Baxter Holmes ESPN Apr 2019 25min Permalink
Despite what dementia has stolen from the cerebral creator of Deadwood, it has given his work a new sense of urgency.
Mark Singer New Yorker May 2019 25min Permalink
A telekinetic teenager became a convicted killer. Can a group of strangers prove that Christina Boyer is really a victim of injustice?
Lauren Markham The Atavist Magazine Feb 2020 50min Permalink
The author unearths the story of Frank Yerby, one of the the most prolific African-American novelists in history.
KaToya Ellis Fleming Oxford American Mar 2020 35min Permalink
An early profile of Carole Baskin, proprietor of Big Cat Rescue in Tampa.
Leonora LaPeter Anton Tampa Bay Times Nov 2007 15min Permalink
A profile of the doctor who has run the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for 36 years.
Michael Specter New Yorker Apr 2020 40min Permalink
The story of an aviator-adventurer draws a journalist into a reflection on his own family’s history of flight.
Ed Caesar New Yorker Oct 2020 Permalink