The Fire That Forged Giannis Antetokounmpo
On the early NBA days of the league’s newest champion.
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On the early NBA days of the league’s newest champion.
Mirin Fader The Ringer Jul 2021 30min Permalink
Notes on humiliation.
Vivian Gornick Harper's Oct 2021 15min Permalink
Can suicide be predicted?
Will Stephenson Harper's Jul 2021 25min Permalink
Selections from the leaked documents about the war in Afghanistan portray a military effort that is ineffective and frequently absurd. (Part of the NYT War Logs series.)

A collection of picks on the history, friends and foes of gay rights.
On the echoes between the world leading up to World War I and our present international trajectory. Then, as globalization, nationalism, and radicalism converged, and tensions within the Balkans served as a spark. Today, conflicts in the Middle East, whose borders were mostly drawn in the wake of World War I, could play a similar role.
Margaret MacMillan Brookings Dec 2013 Permalink
A wife’s notes on her husband’s last months.
Marion Coutts The Guardian Jun 2014 15min Permalink
Afghanistan’s Kyrgyz nomads survive in one of Earth’s most remote places, a pocket of land 14,000 feet high where the currency is sheep, the dream is a road, and many will go an entire lifetime without ever seeing a tree.
Michael Finkel National Geographic Feb 2013 15min Permalink
The bodies in the chalet were found in a secret chamber, arranged radiating out from a point like spokes in a wheel. Some had suffocated, some had been shot. They all were followers of a mysterious prophet, Luc Jouret.
The Servant Girl Murders were one America’s earliest serial killings, predating Jack the Ripper by three years.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Jul 2000 20min
In 1948, a corpse was found on a beach in Adelaide, Australia. His identity, and how he died, remains a mystery.
Mike Dash Smithsonian Aug 2011 15min
In 1964, a Ku Klux Klan “hit squad” rode into Ferriday, Louisiana and set Frank Morris on fire. Nearly a half-century later, one of the alleged participants is still a free man.
Stanley Nelson Concordia Sentinel Jan 2011
In 1982, seven people ingested Tylenol sprinkled with a fatal dose of cyanide. The case has never been solved.
Joy Bergmann Chicago Reader Nov 2000 40min
Jul 2000 – Aug 2011 Permalink
An oral history of Motown Records, its founder Berry Gordy, and 1960s Detroit.
Lisa Robinson Vanity Fair Dec 2008 30min
On wandering through the city’s “post-American” landscape.
Rebecca Solnit Harper's Jul 2007 10min
A response to the national media’s mourning.
Mitch Albom Sports Illustrated Jan 2009 15min
On Mayor Dave Bing’s plan to demolish 10,000 abandoned homes throughout the city.
Howie Kahn GQ May 2011 20min
Jul 2007 – May 2011 Permalink
An interview with T.J. Jackson Lears, historian of the “charlatans and hucksters of the Gilded Age, the cagey, conniving street peddlers of what we’d rather think was a premodern world.”
B. R. Cohen Public Books May 2013 15min Permalink
Al Seckel held legendary parties in the 1980s and 90s, with attendees ranging from Slash to Francis Crick. He later became a collector of optical illusions and gave a TED talk on the topic. He may have also misled and defrauded many of the people he came into contact with.
Mark Oppenheimer Tablet Jul 2015 25min Permalink
A profile of Judy Clarke, who takes on the most heinous, notorious defendants in America, trying to save them from the death penalty. Until Dzokhar Tsarnaev, she usually succeeded.
Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Sep 2015 45min Permalink
When rival gangs confronted each other in the parking lot of a Hooters-esque restaurant, bullets flew. But was the whole a police setup?
Nathaniel Penn GQ Oct 2015 20min Permalink
The Giant Pacific Octopus is, in the words of a Seattle conservationist, a “glamour animal.” It is also tasty. Therein lies the conflict.
Marnie Hanel New York Times Magazine Oct 2013 10min Permalink
On his last day at the paper, memories from Kaplan’s 15 years at the helm.
Jesse Oxfeld New York May 2009 10min
A profile of Beatty as Bulworth hit theaters.
Peter W. Kaplan The Observer May 1998 15min
A profile of post-Observer Kaplan.
Nathan Heller The New Republic Sep 2012 25min
Kaplan on 9/11 and the city he loved.
Peter W. Kaplan New York Aug 2011
On the Wise and Cranky Kaplan Twitter feeds.
Nathan Heller Slate Jul 2010 10min
A profile of Gardner in her twilight.
Peter W. Kaplan New York Times Feb 1985
Feb 1985 – Sep 2012 Permalink
A charismatic entrepreneur, an ex-con turned devout Christian, and the politicians who championed them.
The story of a $36 billion Ponzi scheme in Minnesota.
Mariah Blake The New Republic Oct 2011 35min Permalink
On the mid-sixties birth of America’s underground newspaper movement and the rise of The Realist, East Village Other, Berkeley Barb, and more.
Jacob Brackman Playboy Aug 1967 30min Permalink
In trailers just minutes from the Vegas Strip, Air Force pilots control predators over Iraq and Afghanistan. A case study in the marvels—and limits—of modern military technology.
Robert Kaplan The Atlantic Sep 2006 10min Permalink
A review of Treme, the new HBO show about post-Katrina New Orleans from David Simon, creator of The Wire. “The series virtually prohibits you from loving it,” Franklin writes, “while asking you to value it.”
Nancy Franklin New Yorker Apr 2010 Permalink
A woman is clogging the Lehigh County court system with divorce filings against David Lee Roth and there is nothing the legal system can do to stop her.
Kevin Amerman The Morning Call May 2010 Permalink
Buckminster Fuller reconsidered.
Elizabeth Kolbert New Yorker Jun 2008 15min Permalink
A Wikipedia-style dissection of the case that inspired The Fugitive. The accused, Dr. Sam Sheppard, claimed to have struggled with an intruder before being knocked out and dumped on a beach, his wife’s left corpse in their house.
Denise Noe Crime Magazine Jun 2010 Permalink
How did a Kentucky entrepreneur, a Louisiana politician, and the vice president of Nigeria end up in one of the biggest scandals to hit America’s black elite in decades?
Andrew Rice Portfolio Oct 2007 20min Permalink