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The backstory of “The Duke in His Domain,” Truman Capote’s 1957 New Yorker profile of Marlon Brando.
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The backstory of “The Duke in His Domain,” Truman Capote’s 1957 New Yorker profile of Marlon Brando.
Douglas McCollam Columbia Journalism Review Nov 2012 20min Permalink
Robert Berman was a passionate and polarizing English teacher at the Horace Mann School. He is also accused of sexually abusing many of his devoted students.
Marc Fisher New Yorker Apr 2013 50min Permalink
On Japan’s Hokkaido, an island the size of Ireland, and its rebel leader of lore, Shakushain.
Mike Dash Smithsonian Jun 2013 15min Permalink
How a secretive Israel billionaire seized control of an untapped iron ore deposit beneath one of Africa’s poorest countries.
Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Jul 2013 45min Permalink
A 22,000-word breakdown of Kubrick’s “odyssey portraying the span of millennia.”
J. Maynard Gelinas Underground Research Initiative Jul 2013 1h30min Permalink
Searching for the real reason why a bunch of kids partying at the empty home of an NFL player became a national story.
Jay Caspian Kang Grantland Nov 2013 20min Permalink
On the foreign workers of Dubai, who now make up 90 percent of the city’s population.
Cynthia Gorney National Geographic Jan 2014 20min Permalink
The dissolution of Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Deng’s marriage amidst evidence of her affairs with Tony Blair and Eric Schmidt.
Mark Seal Vanity Fair Feb 2014 45min Permalink
“Radically brilliant. Absurdly ahead of its time. Ridiculously poorly planned.” An oral history of the National Sports Daily.
Alex French, Howie Kahn Grantland Jun 2011 55min Permalink
A profile of Jaron Lanier, virtual reality pioneer and the author of You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto.
Jennifer Kahn New Yorker Aug 2011 20min Permalink
Three decades ago, Mohamed Siad Barre, commander of the Supreme Revolutionary Council, head of the politburo of the Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party and the last ruler of a functional Somali state, built vast concrete buildings all over Mogadishu. The beautiful city on the coast of the Indian Ocean, with its Arabic and Indian architecture, winding alleyways and Italian colonial-era villas, was dominated by these monuments. They were Third World incarnations of Soviet architecture, exuding power, stability and strength. The buildings – like the literacy campaigns, massive public works programmes and a long war against neighbouring Ethiopia in the late 1970s and early 1980s – were supposed to reflect the wisdom and authority of the dictator.
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad London Review of Books Nov 2011 15min Permalink
A profile of Harold Camping, a Christian radio host who (falsely) predicted the end of the world.
Dan P. Lee New York Oct 2011 20min Permalink
A profile of Harold Ramis, director of Groundhog Day, who died today.
Tad Friend New Yorker Apr 2004 30min Permalink
A profile of the Bronx immigrant family on the other end of your Chinese takeout menu.
Kevin Heldman Capital New York Oct 2011 20min Permalink
From a small Ohio town to Afghanistan, a portrait of the perpetrator of a massacre.
James Dao New York Times Mar 2012 10min Permalink
How group of misfits in Texas including Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings snubbed Nashville and brought the hippies and rednecks together. An oral history of outlaw country.
John Spong Texas Monthly Apr 2012 50min Permalink
The story of Trina Garnett, “one of approximately 470 prisoners in Pennsylvania serving life without parole for crimes they committed as teenagers.”
Liliana Segura The Nation May 2012 15min Permalink
A man living in the Boston suburbs learns he could be one of the only survivors of a 1982 massacre in Guatemala.
Sebastian Rotella ProPublica May 2012 40min Permalink
The legalizing of euthanasia is usually seen as a advancement in human rights. But is it appropriate for cases of non-terminal illness?
Rachel Aviv New Yorker Jun 2015 35min Permalink
The longtime editor of the London Review of Books on editing, the “fussed” people on Twitter, and “preferential treament” for women.
Lucy Kellaway FT Aug 2015 10min Permalink
Finding the thread of depression in the personal history of a friend’s suicide.
Andrew Solomon Yale Alumni Magazine Jul 2010 35min Permalink
On old Texas newspapers and a pair of men who shaped the story of civil rights.
John Jeremiah Sullivan, Joel Finsel Oxford American Feb–Mar 2015 50min Permalink
[Part 1 of 2] The story behind this spring’s spate of retributive murders in Southwest D.C.
Paul Duggan Washington Post Jun 2010 10min Permalink
In 2007, Harrah’s made 5.6% of its total Las Vegas revenue off of a single person: Terrance Watanabe.
Alexandra Berzon The Wall Street Journal Dec 2009 10min Permalink
Inside Rebecca West’s vast Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, an eerily timeless travelogue of the Balkans written on the eve of WWI.
Geoff Dyer The Guardian Aug 2006 15min Permalink